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equivocating then—liiat’e whfct I call Jtrnmy
FlMfot! What aay you, peop'e of Georgy
to plaging tecond fiddie to the »oum Varolio,
chivalry I In the courae of In. ’P*® jn
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procedure so utterly re P" g " a ?,
dent chivalric notions that he absquatalated
back to the land of chivalry with h . -trsnctum
rarixdom *•/* *<-»« as the aforeeatd
wittv friend would most eloquently remark.
If Mr B conld only bo induced to stump the
State with Cobb, 1 dent think the Secessionist
could rally a “corporal’s guard” by tho first
Monday io October. Tuat such ** blabbing
**l” as that shocked the sensitiofiuss of our
Souther’ 1 Right® friends, was u be expected.
Tkry were perfectly disgusted with such bare
faesdness Mr. B. had best be careful of him* ■
self now, or the Southern Rights party will
have a watch upon him. They haven’t got the
bugle keyed to that note yet. Thai’s it, Mr. B ;
give it to them. 1 see you believe “ honesty
is the best policy.” You may gammon '-flats”
with that, but you can’t come it over our Burke
Southern Rights boys They Disunionists?
God bless your soul! my dear sir, you are
laboring under a most grievous error They I
are “ for the Union at all hazards, and to the j
last extremity P Come, sir, I hope we shall
hear you no more preaching such “ treasona
ble sentiments” to our immaculates. Now,
then, is .he leader of the “spiked team” clap-
Sing his hands in a perfect ecstacy of de'ight.
le’s not afraid of booggers. He w llgo with
you. Taka him, sir, take him ! You have
given him a new crotchet in bis head. Non
intervention will now be consigned to “the
tomb of the apuiets ”
The show ended by calling up, by acclama
tion, one who is best described in his own lan
guage— he hadn't changed in forty years. He
gave us the “same old ta’k,” and read the
“same old documents*’and abused the W higs
after “the same old style.” How do the Whigs,
who are now acting wi h him, stand this kind
oi badgering? 1 have some curiosity to know.
After some raps to the right and left, upon
w* osesoever’s sconce happened to come in the
way, from Mr. Toombs down, the unchanged
for forty years consented to let us change
Stony Bluff for some other lo.ality. What a
great thing it is to be a grtat man ! I had like
to have forgotten to say that Mr. Miller, in his
reply to Mr. 8., in alluding to the oath reqiiir
ed to be taken, staled that a simibrcircumstance
happened to him, and he took the oath with
pleasure, for he felt proud of the privilege;
for go where he would, within the limits ol
that country over which *avad the stars and
stripes, he was still an American, and the
country his home, and those around him his
countrymen, hie brethreu.
The mee ing and its results may be conside
red a good days job in behalf of the Constitu
tional Union party, and though it was gotten
up on strictly temperance principles, we are
sorry to iay we noticed a slight “ tapping of
claret” by the chivalry. Smikx-
Far the Chronicle <(• Sentinel.
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEOHGIA.
I have, fellow-ciizens, in the few remarks
which lam about to mike to you, no design to
attempt to mislead any. I desiie the opportuni*
ty of giving, with all due respect to all who
may choose to differ with me, a plain statement
of the influences which are operating upon my
mindjin the course which I have resolved on
pursuing in the contest, which is at present going
on ri the State of Georgia. With mo there is
no personal ambition to be gratified in the event
of success to the princlpes I advocate—no
longings for place o w power, urge mo on to say
that calculated to present a false or one sided
view. I may be mistaken in the conclusions to
which I have arrived—my anxiety for the future
may have been the meansof misleading me with
regard to the present, but, iff err it will bo some
slight satisfaction to know, that I err with many
of the greatest, the wisest and the beat in our
State.
I stand upon tho platform of the American
Union, supported and upheld by the American
Constitution. It is there, I take my position,
and there Ihopo to remain, as long as a South*
ern man can remain with gratification and honor.
That Constitution is not a rope of sand to be
Mown away by every passing breeze—but it is a
band of burnished steel, binding together a
brave, a generous, and a free people. Fanaticism
may have its followers in various quarters of this
confederacy—it may even undisputed sway
over the whole of a particular section; but that
its attractions are so strong, that its features are
so enticing, as to draw within its influence a
majority of the intelligent and far seeing people
of Georgia, is an assertion which 1 will never ad
mit to be true. It is an undeniab.efact, that the r e
are in the ranks of the party, which is led by the
avowed advocates of disunion, many honest,
high minded, well meaning men. These are
tho men who would scorn to be found co-oper
ating towards the triumph of measures designed
to disturb the public peace and tranquility, were
they convinced that such must be the result of
their successful exertions. They are excited by
the artfulness of disappointed ambition —they
are urged on by men, who, well knowing the
uselessness of their endeavors to rule over a
people awakened to their unpatriotic designs,
would cast principle and humanity to ihe winds,
and impel the whoh country to ruin. Reason
must disabuse the minds of such men, of any
prejudices which they may entertain—reflection
cannot fail of bringing them to the point, where
the mists of passion will no longer avail in hi
ding the light.
The questions before the people of Georgia at
the present time, are the identical question-*
which were before them previous to the election
for delegates to the State Convention, held in
Milledgeville on the Ulh of December last.
Congress has not been in session, and therefore
th ?re has been nothing done by that body, at
which we have any reason to complain. Since
the assemoiing of that Convention, nothinghas
occurred :o change the aspect of affairs in the
slightest degree. Our situation, then, is precise
ly the same Both flags were then flung to the
breeze— one was the banner of Union, the other
of Secession. The forces of both parties were
arrayed for peaceful conflict at the ballot-box.
There was then no attempt made by the disun
ioniststo disguise the position they had as
sumed, they boldly came forth and asked y )U to
elect their candidates, and thus declare yuur wil
lingness to secede from the Union. Theirpress
es made the same assertion—their orators made
the same speeches. The election came off, and
what was rhe result 1 The majority for the
Union was unexampledin the catalogue of ma
jorities in Georgia. It was a worse than Waterloo
defeat. It was a firm, a noble expression of
your determination not to dissolve this confeder
acy for what had been done.
The delegates to that Convention met for de
liberation. Many of them were men of the
highest character for learning, intelligence, integ
rity and information—men to whose judgment
and patriotism we could safely trust. They were
Georgiana—their stake, their hope, their all was
here. By electing them, you had declared your
confidence in the purity of their intentions, and
your willingness to confirm and abide by the de
cision to which they should arrive. The com
{iromise measures of the lest Congress were ful
y considered by them ; they viewed with calm
ness and deliberation the state of the country and
the probable effect the result ol their communion
would have upon the future. They presented you
their conclusions in a document which for ability
and reason has no superior in the State. Their po
sition was firm, manly, and consistent —their ar
gu nents were unanswerable —their deductions
were true. They established the Gzobgia Plat
fobm —a platform upon which we can all meet
houorablyand securely. It is a gallant defence
of our rights and principles—is an unwavering
declaration ot the route we have marked out for
guidance. They expressed their willingness to
abide by the compromise so long as it was res
pects d and adhered to by the people of the North
and West. Then having performed the duty to
which you ha I appointed them, they retired to
their several homes, leaving to you tho obligation
of re-asserting their doctrines and ratifying their
acts.
You have beheld their labors, fellow citizens,
and at the election which it now close at hand,
will yo- not taken pleasure in pronouncing them
good ? Y’ou elected those men for a particular
{mrpose— you sent them to Milledgeville to act
n your behalf, having previously pointed out to
them the course which they were to pursue.
They have obey-d your instructions to the re
motest tittle. They have shed new’ honors upon
you—they have exalted your character for jus
tice and intelligence in the eyes of men to a
greater extent than it has ever been exalted be
fore. Will you n<»i then cheerfully award your
meed of approbation to them 7 Can you retuse
to ratify those acts which vou almost unanimous
ly directed and enjoined 1 It is not possible that
without the slightest cause for so tremendous a
change, you can, after the lapse of but a few
fleeting months, reverse all the opinions which
In November, 1850, you so deliberately entcr-
aided.
The preservation of the union of these States
is al I important to the continuance of our privi
leges ana liberties. A dissolution would be tan
tamount to a declaration that a people are unable
to govern themselves. Never did the old axiom
meet a more appropriate application, "in Union
there is Strength?* Never at any period in the
history of our country had we so great cause to
stand firm as we have at the present. The cri
sis will speeuily have passed. The assaults now
making upon our Institutions will presently
cease. The waves of passion and prejudice will
become calm, and our land will press on in her
career of prosperity, and glow with renewed vig
or. These trials and dangers are necessary to
our existence —they are absolutely necessary to
our security. They have the same effect upon
our m : nds, that a thunder storm has upon the
air of a hot sultry day, purifying and making it
invigorating and refreshing. We come forth
from these dangers with a strange feeling of
happiness at the nobler position we occupy
among men—with a sterner resolution to strive
unwearyinglv in the great cause of liberty
and right. It isour privilege to ditivr among
ourselves on matters of secondary importance,
but let unholy hands once be laid upon the ark
of o«r salvation, and but one spirit animates
our bosoms-but one arm is stretched forth to
preserve and direct.
Bat let us come to the consideration of other
matters which may not lightly be passed over.
Let us ask ourselves the question, "is our pre
sent situation of no interest to allure than the
people of our own laud T* if we find that a
kuwign anxiety is existent, let us inquire whether
that anxiety is for our preservation or destruction
One or the other it must be. Our arrival at a
satisfactory answer to these questions must
have an immense influence upon our future line
of conduct-
I affirm thus foreign interest Joes exist, and
that that Interest is averse to our continuance as
a free and independent people. It is manifested iu
a variety of ways, in so glaring a manner, that
he who cannot perceive it, must be doubly blind.
That aversion io our repub-icen government is
•hown by the most powerful foreign government
on earth— Rugland. Circumstances may haw
conspired hitherto to prevent as open a display
of her hostility as she was desirous ot snaking,
bat the fire, though in a measure concealed, is
there and only waits a fitting opportunity to
burst into a bl axe. Can anv reasonable man,
acquainted with her and our history tor long oast
years, deny this I While we are in a suite of full
health and vigor, the smallest headway against
us is impossible, her commercial advantages
would prevent an attempt by her. But aha' tered
into fragments—severed and worn down by the
force of internal contenioa. and we present as
i fair a field tor her operations as she could possi
bly desire. A glorious nrey k»r the spoilers I
a rich reward tor the hand ot unprincipled ambi
flon rograsp! Be it the end of our eaemons
to prevent so awful a calamity—be it our aim to
maintain our pre-eminence in the catalogue < f
nations, and the pride of American Freemen
will still guard us as it has guarded us before,
from a descent into the depths yawning before
our eyes.
But if I had no evidence that it is and has
been from the foundation of this government, the
earnest intention of the British government to
dissolve or urge on by means in her power
the dissolution of the American Union, and to
finally reduce our country into a servile depen
dence upon her, 1 should still as firmly believe
this to be the fact. The American colonics were
the brightest jewels in the British crown —the
most exalted expectations of their eventual use
fulness were entertained by the people ol En
gland previous to the Revolution —the most vi
olent and bitter war of words was carried on in
Parliament in relation to them. Immense surrs
to be derived from us were to flow into the
treasury of the crown ; we were in a great meas
ure to relieve the English people from the enor
mous load of taxation under which they were
j laboring. Our destiny was foretold, and it was
, only by the unparalelled exertions of our coun
trymen, whose sense of justice would not allow
them to remain submissive to an oppressive rule, I
that the prediction was not fulfilled. , The result ■
of the Revolutionary War was a terrible blow to
that overbearing power whose prominent object
was the bringing the entire world under its do
minion and influence. It engendered the most
j bitter feelings against this country. Mortifica
tion at their defeat has rankled in the bosoms of
■ the English leaders from that day lo this, and
• it is only now giving way, in part, to a still more
violent feeling of jealousy, as they witness the
tremendous strides we are making in all the em
ployments which honor human nature—strides
which are unparalleled in the hislory of any na
tion since the creation of the world. In view
of these circumstances, is it reasonable to sup
pose that England looks upon us with the slight
; est sentiment of regard ?—that she has our pos
terity in the smallest degree at her heart ? Will
any man possessed of the most shallow acquain
tance with the facts, believe for one moment
»hat it would not afford her the intensest grati
fication to witness the failure of Republican
Government wherever it may be attempted ?
that it would not gloat with the malignity of a
fiend over our downfall 1 I do,not give her credit
for so great a disinterestedness —as an Ameri
can and a friend of those institutions which
have worked so well and so long, I dare not.
The main question which has been presented
to my mind, and to which I have endeavored to
give all the attention I could, is “ Will the dis
solution of this Union benefit the South ? ”
This is a question of the greatest importance,
and should only be answered after patient inves
tigation of all the facts bearing upon it. We are
asked to rush hastily into the adoption of meas
ures antagonistic to the great conservative prin
ciple which is the foundation of out system of
government—we are enjoined to buckle on our
armor and hasten to the fight without inquiring
into the cause of quarrel—we are shown the
enemy and told to meet them without being
informed of the real aggression we have to com
plain of at the hands of that enemy. This
course may do for a people bound to the car of a
despotism—for a people who have so long been
sunk in ignorance that they have lost all know
ledge ul an existence more honorahlo to the spirit
of men, but it will never do lor those who are
capable of judging forthemselves—it cannot ac
tuate Americans who ate resolved on maintain
ing the position they have so gloriously acquired
if it can be done with honor The distinguish
ing characteristic of our people is not excitability,
as is the case with the French—the surface may
be slightly ruffled, but the depths remain undis
turbed. There always are calm, thinking, in
vestigating minds enough to control the impul
sive portions of our communities, and the most
violent blusterer and brawler in the country
has but the privilege which belongs to the
meekest, of depositing one vote in the 13allot
box, that rectifier of our evilsand guardian of
our rights and liberties.
The principal object we of the South have in
view—indeed, as we have all other con
siderations have been lost sight of in the discus
sion now going on t efore you—is the preserva
tion of the institution of B:every. This is a
topic which has absorbed everything else—it is ol
so paramount an interest and importance that
in comparison with it all other po'itical matters
are worthy of little notice. We have 'his insti
tution now among us—it is flourishing—we have
found it to our great interest to continue and
extend it so far as lay in our power —it is our
desire that it may still farther succeed. Our
energies are bmt to its preservation, and it re
quires the taxationof those energies to the ut
most for that purpose, as we stand in a peculiar
position. We are in this regard isolated from
the rest of the civilized world. England would
rejoice at the opportunity to wrest from our pos
session this great source of our prosperity—
nothing would afford her greater delight than to
be the means of depriving us of an institution
which has contributed so powerfully to our
advancement. It then becomes our sacred duty
to consider earnestly but calmly the various
measures which it is proposed we should adopt,
to the end that we may arrive at a correct con
clusion after a complete understanding. Wo
are 100 prone to lake for granted whatever we
hear asserted, and upon so exciting a subject as
is this, we are too much disposed to jump at the
most violent conclusion from the most shallow
premises It is not uneasy thing to disabuse
the public mind of prejudices which have once
been entertained—they must be clearly shewn to
be prejudices betor 1 that event can tako place—
and even when so shown, the combination of
pride and ignorance which so largely enters into
the composition of many, will prevent an ac
knowledgment of the error.
It is surprising to me that men can believe
that a dissolution of this Union will strengthen
the institution of Slavery in the Southern States.
We are now thirty-one sovereignties bound to
gether by the tic of confederation. Tear asun
der this bond and what is our situation 7
Many who are now our friends in t hat event
would become our open enemies They are now
disposed to favor and to aid us in the mainten
ance of our great principle, because we are all
members of the same great family—because we
arc equally the recipients of the benefits which
their and our fathers bestowed upon us. De
stroy this magical bond, and henceforth we are
strangers to each other—they have no longer
anything with us in common. Surrounded, as
we should be in a great measure, by free States,
peopled by men inflamed against us for our
withdrawal from a great and prosperous govern
ment, and where is our security for the preser
vation of our property ? Would there ever be
a Fugitive Slave law then ? Our slaves would
desert from the border States by thousand and
tens ol thousands to the enemy, wh) would
receive them with open arms and quickly assist
them beyond our reach. The people of she
Southern border States are aware of this, and
hence the extremely small favor they are disposed
to show what is called the Secession party. We
might declare war against the North and West
—we might even conquer them—but what good
would result ? We should have to lie down with
our armour on—to be eternally fighting for the
protection of one species of our property, while
all the other business in which we might be en
gaged would speedily go to ruin. 11 is impossible
that such a state of affairs could long continue.
We should stand alone* We could look to no
European powers for assistance, for we should be
battling in a cause to which all of them are op
posed. With an enemy at our own health
stones—with a 100 staring us in the face on
whichever side wo turned—l ask in all candor,
how could we under such circumstances retain
that wealth, that power and that prosperity
which we now possess in so eminent a degree 7
In my humble view they conld not be thus re
tained, and my reasons for such an opinion are
pre-eminently convincing to my own mind,
and I trust will not be without a proper influ
ence upon the minds of those whom 1 have the
honor to address.
But suppose the Union as it now exists dis
solved, and a Southern Confederacy established
without opposition. Let us give the disorgani
zers the full result of their present desires, and
see how wo sh ill stand. We are a people of di
versified interests—capital in one section has and
must have a competitor in another. Wealth
and labor are expended in a particular quar
ter for the advancement of a certain interest
—in another quarterns much wealth and labor
are employed by another class to favor a similar
interest. With each class, large numbers of in
fluential men are connected —many of them as
unscrupulous as some of those now seeking to
promote discord. The new compact is formed,
and the banner of the Southern Confederacy Is
thrown out to the world. Now what guaranty
have we— what can we have, that the new coa
lition will be respected and observed fur any
certain period of time! Then, as now, the in
terest of one Slate will clash with that oi an
another, and the weaker State, imagining herself
injured, and unable to cope in council with the
stronger, will desire to withdraw A law may
be enacted by a largo majority of the representa
tives which may give serious offence to a portion
oi the new nation. Ren ions’rance being use
less, immediate resort would be had to arms.
The ball of dissatisfaction once started, and who
can predict where it would stop 7 The spirit of
compromise—of conservatism—which so hap
pily now animates I hope and believe an im
mense majority of our countrymen, would be
lost, and a spirit of bitter jealousy and fault
finding lake its place. One State would then
say to the remainder, 11 you have injured us—
you have refused to respect our rights—you
have violated the compact we formed when our
new Union was created irom the ruins ot the old
—you have conspired to rob us of our privileges
—and now, defying you to your teeth, we de
clare our unalterable determination to secede
from your corrupt Union!” What a state of
things would this be! and what a spectacle
would we present to the amazed world! The
United States, once the hope of the oppressed of
every foreign civilized 1 md and the highest glory
of humanity, divided into halt a hundred petty,
insignificant, powerless nations i A collection
of little governments—each opposed to the oth
er—the butt and the scorn of ail who now fear
and respect us ! Truly should we be nations of
Ishmaelites, for our hand would be against eve y
man, and every man’s hand would be against
us!
Our hope is in ourselves. Our safety is in our
intelligence. We know the evils from which we
have escaped through the wonderful exertions
vs our progenitors, and knowing those evils in
all their appalling magnitude, have no a flection
for them. We are an educated—an enlightened
people. Our eyes are open to perceive the rocks
and shoals which surround us—our minds are
equal to the task of discovering the means of
escape from these manifold dangers. All that it
requires is that each friend of the American
Union in Georgia should bend his energies to the
task of throwing light upon tue subject under
consideration. To you the moderate, conserva
tive. wise and just people of the country are
anxiously looking at the present time. They
are wating with intense interest to hear the ver
dict which you are about to render. The fate of
the Union may be in your hands. To eve-y
one of you belongs a duty. Mine is nearly done.
The considerations which have been the means
of bringing me to my present conclusion I have
thought it my duty to present to you. They
may not be without their eflect.
And now, people of Georgia, I ask you in all
sincerity, are vou willing to consign your noble
State to the hands of men who would thrust her
to her ruin ? for, if my views are founded on
truth, inevitable ruin must be her fat? should you
blindly resign herguardiansh’p to these infatua
ted men. You have a territory which has been
bountifully blessed in the unerring wisdom ot
Providence with everything that can contribute
to your wealth, your power and your comfort;
you have every variety of climate and every de
scription otsoil. With every facility for Manu
.acluring ; with every convenience for Travel
'mg i with every Educational advantage; with
every necessary for Agricultural purposes; with
every means of acquiring and disseminating in
formation on all matters which can contribute
to your amusement or add to your capabilities
for usefulness to your triends, your neighbors
and lhe generation which is to succeed you—l ask
you. can you consistently with your duty to this
noble State, uanster her destiny to men who
vroiHd cast her into the vortex of ruin * —who
would throw a stumbling block in the way of her
prosperity and turn her triumphal march into an
inglorious retreat? Shall it be said of us, that we
>i3ed in the destruction of a Union whum ma .v
of our ancestors purchaser with their fives I
that we have volunixrilv resigned our rirthright.
and madly cast ourselves upon the waves or
chancel That we have relinquished our «cr
I taiu advantages to follow in a chase for we know
not what, and of which no man knoweth anoth
er end butdisas'er? Shall our children in after
ages, bent beneath me yoke of a tyranicai despo
tism, rise up and invoke curses upon our mem
ories for depriving them of the blessings which
we enjoyed and which we were bound by every
principle of justice and humanity to transmit
unimpared to them? Shall it be said that un
satisfied with our unequaled position, we hur
ried to our fall with the full knowledge of the
fate awaiting us ? No, never, while you retain
that character for discernment and well meaning
which you have so long borne —never, while you
possess the true knowledge of your rights and
the ability to maintain them. A Gbobgian.
Far the Chronicle and Sentinel.
To tha Hon. Herschel V. Johmoii.
No. 5.
“And list comes Herschel, in his orbit elow,
At distance so immense from where the sun
Gives light, that all around is darkest gloom.
In the ethereal void hispondrous frame
Is wheeled from age to age in such a haze,
Which distance makes, as causes him to eeem *4
A star of the sixth magnitude.”
In the above portrait of planet Herschel
do you recognize any of your own physiogno
my ?
But you have written a letter, and it is with
that, and not with your features, that I have to
do. It is the one which you wrote to the com
mittee, invitingyou to Col. McMillan’s barbecue,
and dated from Milledgeville, August 30th, 1851.
As a friend of the Union 1 regret exceedingly you
could not attend on the occasion which called
forth the invitation. I,wish you could attend
meetings, and address the people in every coun
ty. By this means Cobb’s majority wou d be
vastly increased throughout the State.
1 can see no really good excuse for your tailing
to attend Mac’s barbecue. True you say “Mor
gan court will be in session at that time.” But as
the ermine hangs so loosely upon your shoul
ders, could you not have thrownit off for a day
or two ? Almost any one could have filled year
pl ace on the bench for von for a short time, and
that mao, woman, or child, who would have re
fused to do so, at your request, would have been
indeed cruel.
Your compliment to Col. McMillan, and hopes
for his success—tho’ vain—are done according
to form, and are well enough in their place.
You say that “the treat issue” before the
people of Georgia, is “the right of a State to
secede from the Union, and the correlative ab
sence of any right on the part of the Federal
Government to force such a Slate back into the
Union.” If folly were a crime, there is nonsense
enough uttered on the subject of Secession to
damn a universe. Most of people know no bet
ter and are therefore innocent. You, although
not noted for resplendent genius, know better,
and are therefore guilty. Now, in the name of
sense, what practical difference does it make
whether you, or I, or South Carolina, or Geor
gia, believe, or disbelieve secession to be a
peaceable remedy, if other men and other
States do n»t agree with us? Admit the
right of South Carolina—for all the nonsense
of you an i your party is uttered for her sake- to
secede peaceably, with or without cause, and let
us suppose she exercises that right. If all the
other States, through their common agent, the
Federal Government, differ with her in regard to
this right, does it matter, in practice, whether it
actually is, or is not a right ? You know it does
not —South Carolina knows it does not—and
therefore she has prepared the munitions of war;
and you—ala# I for your head and heart—would
have Georgia do the same.
But, suppose Georgia should give her verdict
in favor of Carolina’s secession, which she
will certainly net do, and all the other states
ehoull say nay to the proceedings. Would
Georgia’s voice alter the practical result of se
cession 7 True it nvght alter it in this way.
In any war which might arise, South Carolina
would have Georgia to help her do her fighting ;
and that, indeed, is what you all want. You
wish the people of this State to say to South
Carolina by electing McDonald, “Secede, and if
you get into any dimcul'y, we will back you.”
Y’ou wi-h Georgia to raise her voice in lavor of
disunion. But thia, thank God ! she will never
do, at least until some one of the cuntingrncies
arises mentioned in the verdict of her convention,
a verdict which you and your peers so much hate,
and the contingencies contained in which, you
would be so much rejoiced to see arise, in order
that your dearly cherished schemes of disunion
might be carried out.
Now the only possible way in which tho ques
tion of secession could have any practical bear
ing would be to make it a national issue. We
will suppose now that the question, “Has South
Carolina the right peaceably to secede 7” is up
before the people of tho whole of the United
States, for their decision. Thus the question
might be made a practical one, and upon its de
cision would depend the peaceableness, or un
peaceableness of the measure, or rather of the
results of the measure. True the abstract right
might actually exist, and a third party might see
and admit the right. But that would not affect
tho decision of the majority, nor the results of
that decision.
But you never can get the mere abstract right
of South Carolina to secede before the people,
either of Georgia, or of the United States.
Their verdict would always be upon another is
sue than the one presented by you, that is, upon
the question, il Ou ! ’ht Carolina to secede 7” and
not upon the question “Hasshe the right to se
cede 7” And if the former issue were attempted
to be placed befoie the people of the United
States, to day, for their decision, they would re
ject It, and decide upon the latter, and that deri
sion too, would be in the negative. You cannot get
the mass of the people, and especially the Ameri
can people, so practical in their turn of mind, ex
cept those of Carolina and you of that clique in
other States, to decide upon mere abstractions.
They want something tangible placed before
them upon which to give their judgment. And
let me say to you that that judgment will gener
ally be correct in spite of the efforts made by
you and your genus to mislead it.
Mere visionary abstractions have done
more to curse the world and its inhabitants,
and to deluge the face of the earth in blood, than
any other cause and all causei combined When
Gregoire announced in the National Assembly
of France a certain noted but false abstraction
in reference to the Western colonies of his coun
try, and to the destruction of which that abstrac
tion tended, Robespierre, in a spasmodic frenzy,
akin to that produced on the disuniomsts by
their abstractions, cried out : “PerDient les col
onies , mats sauve ce principle ?" (Perish the
colonies, but save mat principle.)
The colonies did perish, the abstraction did
hive i’a legitimate result, and Europe was del
uged in blood. Your cty, in reference to Seces
sion, is, “perish the Union, but eave that prin
ciple!” Rather than not “save that princi
ple.” you would have South Carolina t o secede,
even without a cause, in order to show that
she had the right to do so. Well, the result
mignt beakin —though G d forbid it should—to
that in F ancc Tne Union would perish, your
abstraction would have its legitimate result,
America, as Europe was, might be drenched in
blood—and 1 may say to you, confidentially,
there mignt not be as reach difficulty in finding
an American R >bespierreas some might suppose.
God save us from you, and your abstractions,
from the warsand blood which you would pro
duce, and from all cis-Atlantic Robespierres!
But vou can never have your way, and every
heart should swell with gratitude to Heaven that
it has placed around this highly favored land
hosts of angel bands to guard it from theassults
ot bad men, and to enlighten the heads and
hearts of the American people against those
who would strike down that temple ot liberty
whose summit reaches even to tne throne of
God.
But to return. I have supposed the question
of the right of Secession on the part of Carolina,
to have been placed before the people of the
United Stales for their decision, and that they
had changed the issue to whether that State
ought to secede, and had decided in the negative
Now you must not suppose that because the
people had decided that Carolinia ought not to
secede, or even that she had not the right to do
so, they would necessarily wage war again.-t her.
War or no war would depend upon circum
stances. If the other States experienced no
injury by the act of her Secession, then of course
there would be no fighting. But it, on the other
hand, the remaining States should see that tneir
internal peace and tranquility were endange cd
by the act of South Carolina —that their Com
merce and manufactures would immeasurably
suffer—or if any thing else should occur, on ac
count of which, the laws of nations and ot s. If
protection wouldjustily a war, then war would
most assuredly be waged against the seceding
State—if not as a member ot the confederacy,
at least as a foreign power. And here let me
ask you what practical difference it would make
in the war, whether you called it a war agrinst
a seceding State, or a war against a foreign
power 3 Think you the pangs of the bayonet
would be less excruciating in one instance than
in the other 3
Now the strong probability is the Secession . f
a State could never occur without bloodshed,
even admitting it to be intrinsically peaceable,
and every n an in the Union believed it to be so.
1 sincerely hope,if Carolina secedes, she will be
peaceably permitted to co on her way rejoicing,
and 1 lor one, unless J could have some guaran
ty that she would be less fussy for the future,
would be tempted to exclaim, “ Joy go with
her: ’* Bui then, when I remember what excit
ing times it would produce, how inflamed the
popular mind w ould become, when 1 remember
there would be thirty other parties, States, who
would have an interest in this matter, and more
than nineteen millions of inhabitants, besides
South Carolina and mysvlf, who would be dis
posed to have a say so in the atiair—when I re
member how jealous the members of a house,
when divided, become of each other—l may well
tear a collision would result from Secession by
South Carolina. Even if the other States admit
ted the legal right of Caroling to secede, they would
deny her moral right to do so. And justly laying
at her door, the long train of evils which would
result from a disruption of the Union, they
would seek occasion, in all probability, to de
clare war against her as a foreign power. Then
it would be true that she would have to “de
pend tor the maintenance of her position ‘ upon
the stout hearts and s'rung arms of a free
people*” a thing to which you seem to object,
but which, after all, is the surest, and in the last
resort, the only “ maintenance” of any “ po
sition.” You think, though, that an abstraction
is the best “ maintenance.”
If 1 owu a piece of lind, I have a guarantee to
my property in the strong arm cf the municipal law,
and that law is the umpire between me and any per
son who disputes the title with me. In any right
claimed by a natiou or State, upon a compact, or up
on national law, cr upon aay other foundation, as
between itself and any other nation or State, there
bt ing do common umpire*ta decide upca any dispute
between them, go d faith on the ;>artof each, whers
there is no dis; u.e a& to the coocructkm ot the com
part —or a resort to the sworJ as a final remedy
where there is a dispute—is the only guarantee that
either has for the matnientnee of its position The
sword must decide the quasi ion between them. And
that Scale, whose people bad the “suxtest hearts”
and “strongest arms,” would come off victorious.
The history oi the world from ths time the Grecian
hist at is q jEsop, related the adventure of the wolf and
the lamb, shows that people wm have a will, rarely
tali to find a pretext. If Carolina she aid secede, the
ocher States, even tba* they admitted her right to do
so, would, possibly, no much suffer from ike act that
they would hare a will to wage war aga net her.
And having that will, they would not fail to find a
pretext, even if one could ao: be found in the laws
of na iona. and of self-protection. Now Ido not say
tneeethings w uid certa’nly happen, and sincerely
h?je thej. would net; hut I do ssy th* possibilities,
if not probabilities, are m their tavor. And the bare
possibility of such a thing ought tu make every hon
est an-J good min pause sad reds'L Instead ot
your doing so, however, you and your party —stwne
of you directly and absolutely, others induectly and
secretly—are urgia; Carolina to secede, and to
bring upon out peupit scenes, at the thought of
which even angels shudder, while demons laugh
and bowl theix fieodun joy.
But. you wid proaab.y say, ‘ f Secession ?e de
nied us, we had belter fight for it and obtain the
right a: once.” In ordci determine waeihe.- it is best
to do so, let os consider why u is that you want the
right peaeuabiy to eeeeje. is it not that there may
be no war when you do eeecdc ? Certainly, that is
' the reason. Well then, what you say amounts to
about this : “We had better rush immediately into
actual war now, in order to avoid the possibility of
it hereafter. You see you stake wa) — and present
war -against only the possi'Hity of war. and that
at some future time. Was ever such folly con
tended for by men before ?
1 am very much opposed to a man’s putting what
he considers important things, in tbat which he
writes, in Italics, or capitals. That is, 1 am opposed
to the excessive use of these kinds of letters—espe
cially as your friend, Mr, Smythe, uses them so
much. Yet : will venture to put down in Italics
what 1 consider clear in regard to Secession, and
what I think I have demonstrated:
1. That the abstract right of Secession, from
its very abstraction, and from the nature of the
American people, will never be decided either by
the people cf any ohter than the seceding Stale, or
of the United Ututes. And
2. Thai even admitting Secession to be of it
self pe iceable, it is not at all probable it will, or
can ever, be so in its result.
Some of your parly have been badly enough af
flicted with the simples to urge in favor of McDon
ald’s election, that if he were Governor, and a State
should secede, war ensue, and prisoners be taken
from izmong her citizens, they would be treated as
prisoners of war : whereas, if Cobb were elected—
as he will be—such captives would be condemned--
hung as traitors. Now in the first place, Mr. Cobb
nays distinctly in his letter of acceptance, such cap
tives would not be traitors. But suppose he bad
never said any thing about it, do you suppose the
Government would call up-n the Governor of Geor
gia to know his opinion, in reference to what shoul l
Le done with these captives ? No I the real truth of
the matter is, you have despaired of getting Georgia
out of the Union by her own act, and you wish her
to consent in advance, to be dragged out by South
Carolina. And hence, ail your “senseless clamor”
about secession.
You find great fault with Mr. Cobb for spying he
would take counsel of tbe people, should a certain
i nportant emergency arise, and say tho “imj ulses
of a true Southern heart should boa sufficient
guide.” I apprehend, you find more fault with Mr.
Cobb himseb, than you do with bls opinion. His
sin is, that be outstripped you in tbe affections of the
Democratic party. You aimed a blow at him, which
though it did not take effect upon him, yet did much
towards destroying the Democratic party. Mind
me, I do not intend to attach to you much impor
tance or ability by saying this—unless it be ability
to do evil, which is no honor A child may set fire
to a temple, but it argues no ability or talent. He
can destroy, but cannot build up
But you say Mr. Coob should be governed by
“impulses.” God forbid. We have been governed
bv “impulses” enough already to place our country
on the verge of destination. 1 am not surprised,
however, at your being opposed to taking counsel of
the people. You took counsel of them last fall con
cerning disunion, and the scoundrels had th« impu
dence to decide against you, and you wont take
counsel of them any more—not you 1 You know
them too well for that. They can’t fool you an .
more. You and your pirty intend to be governed
by “impulses,” and “people” may go to the devil.
The Lord help you, Heischel!
You object very much to the senseless “clamor
of Union ’ this glorious Union !” You will be sick
er of this “senseless clamor” than you are now,
yet, before you die. But why should you object to
the “ masked battery,” when you yourself are
using it against ?he Union Had you merci? taken
tbe guns of Mr. Toombs and spiked them, I should
have nothing to say. But Ido protest a. ainst your
turning them against the Unicn.
You bring in Jefferson and Madison, with many
o.hereof the Republican school, to support ycur de
structive and Federal heresies. Well, you either
display igu rance cf your country’s history, an J the
opinions of her statesmen, or you are guilty of a
gross slander upon those opinions. I challenge you
to tho proof that .Madison and Jeffereun supported
secession.
But the most senseie.-s of ail the dang I have ever
seen put forth on any subject, is (hat contained in
your counsel to Georgia to hold on to her “ right to
t ssist, and resist peaceably.” You challenge atten
tion to it, and make it prominent by putting it in
italics. Why, you can’t give up a “right to resist;”
and the very idea of resistance is incompatible wi h
peace. My dear Sir, your can’t is eimply beneath
contempt who has called upon Georgia to
give up her “ right to resist, and resist peaceably ? ’
And if any one had done so, he would have called
upon her for an impossibility. For, in the first place,
as I have already said, she cannot give up her right
to resi&t, and in the next place to call upon her to
give up her right to “ resist peaceably,” would be
like calling upon her to draw blood out of a turnip.
But you go on to say, “ Can we expect any jus
tice at the hands of the present Free Soil Executive
and his cabinet? Can we effect anything by a gu
ment and appeals to the reason of our Northern op.
pressors? Can we obtain shelter under the broad
shield of the Constitution? No. All these are
impotent as “pack-thread,” Ac. Now hear it, ail
the world, and proclaim it on the house-tops, ye
that hear it; Herschel V. Johnson, Judge of the
Ocmulgee Circuit, says, in the first place, that we
have Northern oppressors.” thereby admitting his
(wn inferiority! How my cheek burns with shame
that there isene such man in all theSiuth! In the
next place he taya, that the President and cabinet,
argument and appeals to the reason, and even the
constitution itself, are “ impotent us pack-thread,”
to eecuie us our rights. And yet, instead of de
peo ling forth? maintenance of these rights “upon
the stout heerts and strong armsuf a free people,”
you hang ail of our hopes upon tho poor, pitiful, puny
abstraction which you are pleased (o call the “ right
of secession,” or the “right to resist F and that
too when you say the Constitution, attong as it is,
wi’l ds nothing for us. And you are led into all this
folly and extravagance lust tor the sake of inveig
ling the people into disunion.
After the first Monday in October, it may be said
of you and ycur felbws ;
Derision snail strike you forlorn,
Am< ckcry that never sb-.11 dio;
Tiie curses of hate and the hi.-see of scorn
Shall burthen the winds of thesiy;
And proud o’er your ruin foiever be hurled
The laughter of triumph, the jeers of the world.
/'nti-Jacobin.
Secession*
Ek true Is from the address of Professor
Francis Liebxr, read to the Union Conven
tion in Greenville, South Carolina, Jaly 4th,
1851 s
• • • • •
“ Yet there are those io (hit country uho daringly
pretend to make light of the great boon received
from our fathers—of this, by far the greatest act of
our history-—of that act, by which we stand forth
among the nations of the earth—the Union. There
have been patriot? as devoted as ours—there hav*
been republics besides ours—there have been spread
ing nations like ours—there have been bold adven
turers preying on into distant regions before ours
there have been confederacies in antiquity and
modern times, besides ours—but there has never
been a union of free States like ours, jeemeoted by a
united representation of the single States, and of the
people at large, woven together into a true Govern
ment like ours ; leaving separate what ought tube
separated, and yet uniting the whole by a broadcast
and equal representation, changing with the chang
ing population, so that we cannot fall into a dire
Pelopones an war, in which Athens anJ Bparta
struggled for the leadership ; that internecine war
into which all other confederacies have fallen, and
in which tftey have buried themaelves under their
own runs, unless they bad slowly glided into sub
mission to one Holland, or one Austria, or one
Berne. Many federations in lead have had to b*:ar
the larger part of both the evils.
There are those who pretend to make light of the
Union; there are thtMe wtio wiltuily shut their eyes
to the many positive blessings she has bestowed
upon us, and who seem to forget that tho good, which
the Union with her Suprem • Court, or any ocher
vast and lasting institution bestows upon men, con
sists as much in preventing evils, us in showering
benefits into our laps. There are those who will
not B'2e or hear what is happening belore our own
eyes in other countries —in Germany, f r instance —
that living, yet Heeding, ailing, writhing, humbled
commentator on Disunion. Ah • fellow-citizens,
you can but fear, and justly fear, that of disunion
which I know. With you the evils of disunion are
happily but m of apprehension; with me un
happily, matters of living knowledge. I am like
a man who knows the plague, because he has been
in the East where he witnessed its ravages; you
only know it from description, ind easily in y it be
understood why I shudder when I hear persons
speak of the plague with trifling flippancy, or court
ing the appalling distemper to come ami make its
pleasant home among us, as a sweet blessing, which
Providence has never yet vouchsafed to us.
There are those who seem to imagine, that the
Union might be broken up and a new confederacy
be formed, with the ease and pteciaioa with which
the glazier breaks his brittle substance along the
line which his tiny diamond has drawn forgetting
iliat n great institution, and, least cf all, a country,
has ever broken up or can break up in j>eaee, an I
without a struggle commensurate tn it? own rragui
tude; and thit. when vehement pas i°n dashes
down n ncble mirror, nn one ceu hope to gather a
dozen well framed iooking-glaszea trotn the ground.
Th ’re ate those even who think that the lines alo g
which the Union will split, are ready marked like
the graved lines in some soft «übstince, intended
from the leginning, to be broken into parts for ulti
mate use. There are these who speak of the
remedy of secession—a remedy, as amputation
would be a remedy, indeed, to care a troublesome
corn, or as cutting one’s throat would remedy a mi
graine.
There are those even, it seems to me, who have
first rashly conceived of secession as a remedy, and
now adhere to it as the end and object to be obtained,
wti«n they aic shown that it would not cure the
evils complaine > of, but, on the contrary, would
induce others, infinitely greater, and infinitely moie
numerous. They fall into the common error of
getting so Je?ply interested in the m ana, that the
object, for the obtaining of which the means was
first selected, is forgotten. But though the error be
of daily occurrence, it is a fearlid one in this case,
because the consequences would be appalling.
They aimotX remind us of those good people in Tus
cany, who had contracted so great a fondness for
Su Roma nidus, that when the saint had ccmeluded
to remove from among them, resolved, in a grave
town meeting, to slay their patron saint, so (bat
they might have at least his bones, and worship
them as eacre i relics.
But dove not the ConstitutHi say tbit every pow
er not granted in that instrument, shall be reserved
for each State ? Assuredly it doe?. But this very
provision is Gun Jed upon the supposition of the exis
tence of two powers, the General and State Govern
ments The Constitution is intended to regulate
the affairs between them ; secession, however, anni
hilates one party—the General Government—so far
as the seceding State is concerned. The supposition
that the Constitution itself contains a tacit acknowl
edgment of the right ot secession, would amount to
an assumption that a principle of self-destruction
had been infuse Iby its own makers into the very
iuairuiueni which constructs the Government. It
would amount to much the same provision which
was contained in the first democratic constitution cf
Era ce. namely, that if the government acts against
the raw, every citizen has the duty t ) take up arms
against it. This was indeed, declnnog that govern
ment a Jacobinical democracy, tempered by revolu
ticn, as a writer baa called Turkey a despotism,
tempered by regicide
And can we imagine that men so sagacious. ®o fur
seeing on the one hand, and so thoroughly rch o>ed
by experience on the other, as the framersef our Gon
stitntioo were, have j'lst omitted, by some oversight,
to speak on so important a point? One cf the great
eat jurists of Ge rmany, said to be at Frankfort, when
the constituent parliament was tiere assembled, of
which he was a member? —‘The more I study your
Constitution, the more 1 am amazed at the wise fore
cast of its makers, and manly forbearance which
prevented th-m from the entering into any unnecessa
ry details, so easily t mbarrassing at a later period.'’
They would not deserve this praise or in fact, our
respect, bad they been guilty of a neglect sue a as
has oeen supposed. Gau we, m our sober senses, im
agine th't they believed in the neht ot secession,
when they did not even stipulate a fixed time neces
sary u> give notice of a contemplated secession, when
they knew quite as well as we do that not even a
common troaiy of offence and defence —no. not even
one of trade and amity, is ever entered into by in
dependent powers, without Btirulating the period
which must elapse between informing the other par
ties ot an intended withdrawal, anti the time when it
actually can ta ’e p ace; and when they knew per
fectly well that uulese such a provision is contained
iu treaties, all internauonal law interprets them as
p?rpe ual ? When they knew that not even two
merchants join in pirtxership, wi hout providing f r
the period necessary to give notice of an intended
dissolution cf the house. It seems to me prepo?terou s
to suprose it. The absence of ail mention of seces
c >oa most be explained on the same ground on which
the emission of parricide in the first Roman penal
laws was explained —no one thought of such a deed.
Those whoso carefully drew up our Constitution,
cannot be blamed for not having thought of this extrav
agance, because it had never been dreampt of in any
confederacy, ancient, ru dieval < r modern. Never
has there existed an architect io presumptuous as to
consider himself able to build an aich equal to its
purpose and use, yet each stone of which should bo
so loose tbat it might be removed at any time, leaving
a sort of abstract arch fit to support abstractions only
—as useful a reality as a knife would be without a
blade, and cf which thehand'eis missing.
• For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
TO MRS. M. N. L.
Dear lady fair, thy lot is blest
By all the beings you love best;
Hope the rainbow s tints doth bo-row,
To clothe for thee each coming morrow.
Ail to love and none to chide,
A husband’s manly arm to guide
Thy barque, as on life’s troubled sea
It glides towards eternity.
A mother’s gentle voice to cheer,
A father’s smile is ever near |
They gather for thee each sweet flower,
To place witliin affection’s bower.
Thou hast a fair and sinless child,
For whom you fed devotion w ild,
You naze on him with tearful joy.
And pray for blessings on your boy.
Thus as a queenly, fragrant rose,
Whose leaf with brightest beauty glows,
Diffusing sweetness round thy dwelling,
Affection from thy warm heart welling.
“Pass on in gladaess” lady fair,
Gathering treasures rich and rare.
May no dark storms of sorrow rise,
To cloud thine earthly Paradise.
Fate has for thee a garland wove,
Intwined with ail the flowers you love;
Oh ! may no bud be rudely riven,
But bear them with thee up to Heaven.
VIBGIS7IA.
Columbia Co., Sept. 22d, 1851.
Two mistakes occurred in my “lines to
Miss Mary D,” published last week. In the
third line of the first verse, read “thy” hori
zon, for “they,” and in the last lino of the fifth
verse read “virtue” for “beauty.”
The Bugleman’s Last Note.
A few days since, on the authority of a Tel
egraphic despatch, we announced the with
drawal of Gsn. Quitman, from the Guberna
torial canvass in Mississippi. We have now
the pleasure of laying before ohs readers the
bugleman's last note, in the shape of an address
to the people of that State, in which he for
mally retires, and assigns as his reasons there
for—the stern rebuke of an indignant people.
Here it is :
To THE DeMOCRATIO STATS RIGHTS PARTY OF
Mississippi.—The result of the recent election for
the Conrenticn, however brought about, must be re
garded, at least for the present, as decisive of the po
sition of the State on the great issue involved.
The majority have declared tb*t they are content
with the late aggressive measures of Congress, and
opposed to any remedial ac ion by the State.
Although thia d-terminal ton of the people is at
variance with my fixed opinion of the true policy of
the State, heretofore expressed and still conecicn
tiously entertained ; yet as a State Rights man, end
a Democrat. 1 bow in respectful submissicn to the
apparent wi I of tbe people
It is true the State has not yet spoken authorita
tively, even the acts of the convention will not be
binding until they «hali have been ratified by a vote
of the people ; but b/ the election of non-resisters to
th? convention, a majority of tbe people have de
clared against tbe course of policy on the slavery
questions, which I deemed it my duty to pursue
while G-vernor ; and against the principles upon
which I was nominated and upon which alone I h<d
consented to run ae a candidate. I might perhaps, be
elected, notwithstanding this demonstration of public
sentiment in the election for the convention ; but as i
have been mainly instrumental in reeking the expres
sion of the will of the people through a convention,
1 ought, in my political action, to abide by it.
Therefore, upon full consideration of all the cir
cumstances, respect for the apparent decision of the
people, duty to the noble and patiiotic party who are
struggling to maintain the rights of the So th against
Northern aggression, and tn preserve our institu
tions from the fata! effects of consoiid Hing all power
in the Fedeial Government, and a sense of self
reepect, which inclines me not to seek a public sta
tion in wh ch my opinions upon vital quest ons are
not sustained by a majority of my constituents, all
concur in inducing tne to the opinion that my duly
n qures me to retire from the position which I occu
py as the Democratic State Rights candidate for Gov
ernor. With emotions of the deepest gratitude to
the patriotic party by which I was nominated, fur
the evidences of their unfaltering confidence, both
in the ncminotion and in the warn and Lear y re
ception with which I have been met every where in
the cc nv.is.j, I tender my resignation of the high and
honorable post of their chief standard bearer in the
p?nding canvass, pledging myse'f to them and to the
country, that I will, to the last, serve the great cause
of ?’tatc rights as faithfully in the ranks as I have
endeavored to do in h gb position.
Monmouth, Sept. 6, 1351. J. A. Quitman.
In connexion with this address it may not ba
inappropriate to append the followingyeu d'es
prit iroiu the Columbus Lnquirer :
Ten Cents Rewabd I— Strayed, or enticed from
the employ of the Chivalry Wind Instrument Band,
a Rhett Be ole Blows* of considerable notoriety,
having recently executed many difficult “ blasts”
upon that instrument. When last heard from, ha
was blowing fire eating strains in Mississippi, when a
sudden damp collapsed his mouth-puce—the audi
ence presuming the catastrophe occurred from the
rising efthe Foot lights. We are thus particular, as
any information concerning him or his echo, Char
ley,’ of Georgia, will be thankfully received at
Rhett’s music depot, Charleston, or tbe first Fifer,
Columbus.
r-Tj’ Disunion presses generally will please give
this a few gratuitous insertions. Thomsons,
Later from Havana.—The mail schooner
Chatham, Captain Gladden, arrived at Savan
nah on Saturday from Havana, via Key West.
She left ii.e former place on the 12th, and the
latter on the 13th inat., but has experienced
heavy weather on her passage, which has caus
ed her detention. The editors of the Savan
nah Republican have been informed by Capt.
Gladden, that there was uu news of importance
in Havana at his departure, the city being
quiet and business getting brisk again.
The Chatham's mails arrived here •- esterday
by tho Ca’houn, and we have received onr
usual favor from Key West correspondent,
which wo subjoin, as also files of tha Gaceta
de ’a Habaaa to the II th inst, inclusive. The
latter contain, however, but few items of any
interest to our readers. Ono thousand dollars
has been paid to each of the sixteen individuals
who capture! Lopez; and S6O 473 71 had
been contributed for the relief of the families
the deceased and wounded soldiers in the
batties with Lopez A benefit also, was given
at the Tacon Theatre for the sufferers which
produced $8,068 46. Promotions and crosses
of honor have been profusely distributed to
io those engaged in the different battles. A
grand 7e Denas ' as given on the 7th, in honor
of the deceased, and a review took place in
tho afteruoor.', at which the Cap atu Genera!
in perbou decorated the honored individual*
with crosses, in the name of her majesty, in
recompense for their valor and loyalty. Dun
Francisco Gonzales Gorantez. and Don Jose
Meza have been outlawed for secreting arms,
and are called upon to deliver themselves up
to justice.
Thb East Tenmessee asb Gzobgia Rail
boad. —Wf understand, says the Knoxville
Register of the 18th inst., that Mr Prichard and
his corps of engineers, are now busily engaged
in re-surveying and re-locating the route for
the railroad between Blair’s Ferry and Knox
ville. They have already permaneirly selected
the site where the bridge will cross the Tennes
see river, and we have no doubt the Company
will let the bridge out by contractjat the next
meeting of the Directors, and in ail probability, a
part of the road for grading
Mobile and Ohio Ra Lraad.— The Mobile Tri
burn' states that the directors of this road will
commence laying the superstructure next
week, and that the whole work to Citronelle
thirty throe nj le«, will be fioi-hed and in oper
ation within three months.
I hat paper adds that 200 miies of the rdad
will *ioon be let out for grading, and that in
Mississippi the bona fide uncondi :onal eub
scriptions amount to fully $900,000, which
wi!l be greatly increased the moment ground is
broken The lands granted by the Government
are all located
Mr. Hobbs, the Yankee lock inventor, has at
last riumphantiy opened that of the English
lock-maker, Bramah, who had offered £2OO
to any one who would open it within thirty
days. A committee was agreed upon to pre
pare the lock, plaeing it between two planks
firmly fixed together, with nothing but the
keyhole visible. Mr. Hobbs commenced ope
rations upon the lock in the presence of the
committee, and on the second trial the Bramah
lock was opened, and tho £2OO lost The
Bank of England, the Government Offices,
and all safes, were locked with either Chubb’s
or Bramah’s. Mr. Hobbs has been called upon
by the officers of lhe Bank of England, and
very probably will receive orders for the entire
establishment. A ter Hobbs had opened Bra
mah’s jock, the committee sent for Bramah
and hia friends, and when they entered the
room and saw that this specially guarded lock
had been op- ned, they were, it is said, truly
complete pictures of despair.
Good Nxwe rcR Peach Growers —Under
this head, in a rece t number of the New
York Express, we find the following article.
It cannot fail to be of interest not only to
peach growers, bat to peach eaters every
where :
•• We have seen peaeh trees io the District
of Columbia thissummar having much larger
and more delicious peaches than our mote
northern fruit, and the trees in the highest
state of perfection, in conseqnence of being
paiifed near the root by a cheap chemical
paint, prepared by J. C. Lewis, Esq., of
Washington city Thio preparation works the
almost instant destraction cf the grubworm,
■he enemy of both tree and fruit, and so great
an enemy that it is a common thing for them to
destroy the fruit entirely in from three to five
years. Having seen the perfection of the
remedy, and the vigor of >he tree and froit in
consequence of its application, we can re
commend it to our friends in New York,
New Jersev, Delaware, and everywhere where
peach orchards are in cultivation.”
Philadelphia, BepL 17. -Abram Hail, ar
rested near Christiana, claimed as the proper y
of Mr. Slade of Hartford county, Md , had a
bearing before Commissioner Ingraham to day
and was remanded to bis master. Hal. was ar
re-ted for participation in the late outrage. He
admitted he was a slave and expressed a desire
to return to bis master.
Washisutor, Sept. 16th.—Dr. Geo. A Gar
diner returned here yesterday and delivered
himself to the custody of the Marshal of the
District. He was brought before Judge
Crawford of the Criminal Coart, and gave
security in the sum of $40,000 lor bis appear
ance at the December term. George W.
Riggs and Dr . Tbos. Miller are his securities.
Worcester, Sept. 16—The Free Soil Con
vention has nominated John G. Palfrey for
Governor and Amos J. Walker, for Lieutenant
Governor.
New You, Sept. la.—James Fennimore
Cooper, the distinguished novelet, diedyes
terday, at his residence >n Cooperstown, after
a lingering illness.
I LATE] t FROM EniOPE.
Fnrther by the Pacific*
New York, Sept. 14.—The steamship Pacific
with Liverpool dates of the 3d, hai arrive!.
She brings a large freight of fine goods and
192 passengers, among whom are Miss Catha
rine Hayes, and Hackett, the Comedian. Au
thentic information has been received of 'he
discovery of gold in great profusion at Bath
urst, South Wales. The colony was in a state
of great excitement, and the people were
flocking tn the locality in great numbers.
The yacht America had been sold to Capt.
Do Biaquiore, of the Indian army, for £5 000
Hobb’s rucceesm picking the Bramah lock has
created great excitement among the Bankers
and Bramah refuses to pay the £2OO reward
offered. The builder of the America returns
with erdersfor 3 yachts for Englishmen. Many
English yach s are being lengthened and oth
erwise Americanized. The Duke and Duch*
ess of Norfolk have become converts to Pro
testautism.
Markets — The Cotton market has been less
animated since the Niagara sailed, prices clo
sing rather in favor of buyers, without any
quotable change. Borno circulars quote a
decline of }d. Sales of the 4 days were 22,000
bales of which speculators took 1200 and ex
porters 3000 bales, The stock at Liverpool is
647,000 bales, being 11,000 less than estima
ted. Trade in Munches er quiet and prices
lower.
The London Slock Market has improved.
Consols have advanced £ Railway stocks have
improved. Foreign stocks continue dull.
France— Votes in favor of a revision of the
Constitution pour in from all sides. The Ly
ons Court Martial has found 36 of the prison
ers guilty, and they have b*en variously sen
tenced to transportation, fines aud imprison
ment.
The Prince de Joinville has declined either
to offer himself as a candidate for the Presiden
cy or to withdraw from the field.
Austria.— The Emperor has issued a pro
clamation stating that Aus ria will be govern
ed absolutely.
Naples —The king has repudiated the new
Constitution.
Turkey —lt i < stated that Ali Pasha has ad
dressed the Austrian Ambassador a writt n
assurance that the Sublime Po.te will not re
lease the Hungarian refugees before the let of
January next, it is also reported in contra
dic ion, that the Government has officially no
tified the refugees, that an American ream
vessel is at their disposal, to carry them to the
United States, on the Ist of September.
Further by the Europa,
Haifax, S’pt. 16. —For some days previ.
oueto the sailing of the Europa, the Manches
ter market exhibited a quiet feeling,—the dim
inished animation having probably resulted
from the increased caution with which the
recent heavy failures had inspired, not only
merchants, but also London and other bank
ers, who have become rather more cautious in
discounting bills.
Havre, September 3d. 1851.—Our latest
dates from New York, ae to the 19. h August
by the steamship Europa, The later arrivals
from the United States ha’.c brought very fa
vorable accounts regarding the new crop of
Cotton. The sales of the week have reached
3929 bales, against 959 of imports, which
leaves u.• a stock on hand of 45,754 bales. We
quite Mobiles at f. 75 to f. 85; Uplands, f. 66
to f 84. .
By the Board of Trade returns, published
on Friday it appears that the exports of Brit
ish and Irish produce and manufactures for the
month, and for seven months, ending Aug. 5.
1851 show an increase, as compared with the
same period in 1850, of £3BB 639, forth?
month, and £2,703,984, for tho seven months.
The English Journals present scarcely an
item of news of general interest.
The accounts of the discovery of an im
mense gold field in Australia has afforded to
the pres* abundant matter for comment This
field lies about 150 miles from Sidney, from
the mountain ranges to an indefinite extent in
the interior. The country is described by a
Mr. Hargrave as “one imu ense gold field.”
At Paris, on ihe 31st August, six y-five per
sons were arrested, charged with a conspiracy
against the State. Amongst the number was
an advocate, named Millard formerly Secre
tary io Ledru Rollin. Rollin *s said to be im
plicated in the conspiracy.
It is confidently asserted that the Prince de
Joinville has officially declared his intention to
compete for the Presidency.
Letters from Toulon state that the French
Mediterranean sqadron has received orders tu
proceed forthwith to the coast of Italy. The
disturbed state of the Italian peninsula,*and es
pecially of Naples, ia said to be the cause of
this movement on the part of the French Na
pks, aud indeed tho whole of Italy is becoming
d ily more and more nr easy.
Tee Paris correspondent of tho London
Post, under date of Wednesday, says that
forty-seven arrests were made that day of per
sons k- own to be concerned in a conspiracy
against the State, and also known to aavo con
nections with the Democratic refugees in Loi -
don.
Very great exciiement has been created
throughout Europe by the promulgation of
the two decrees by the Emperor of Austria, in
which he doc’ares that his ministers are hence
forth to be responsible to no other political au
iheri’y than tho throne. The verj forms of
the constitutional government are abolished,
and future decrees are about tu be counter
signed by the—[here the telegraph gives us
several sentences of unintelligible jargon.]
Prince Metternich is expected at Vienna in
the course of a few days.
Tho London journals do nnt credit the re
port, which was brought by the Pacific, that
Kossuth and his companions are to be detained
bevond the Ist (15th) of the present month
We are indebted to Capt. Lo -t, of the Euro
pa, for the following latest intelligence by elec
tric telegraph from London to Liverpool, re
ceived just prevails to the sailing of the Euro
pa :
Londom Saturday, P. 31., Sept. 6.
We have Paris dates of Thursday evening,
which alate that further arrests have been made
of partiea concerned in the conspiracy. The
whole number arrested thus far is 125 A
general Socialist revolution was the object of
the conspiracy. There was less excitement
upon the subject in Paris than might have been
anticipated. [Here follows a paragraph rela
tive to the Presidency, but so caieieetly ren
dered by the telegraph operators as to be whol
ly unintelligible.]
The Pans Bourse was firm, and prices were
mproving. The 5 perjcls. opened at f9O 90c
rtud closed at f 94 95c Three percents closed
at f 57.
Advices from Vienna of the 31et nit, stale
thai the attitude assumed by the people, caused
by the edict of the Emperor abolishing the
Constitution, haa inspired ihoae in office with
aerie us misgivings.
From Rome we learn that the city had been
thrown into great excitement on the 29th ult.,
in consequence of the chambers of one of the
Secretaries of Bia ta being broken open, and
minutely searched by the police, who, it is pre
sumed, would not have ventured upon such a
proceeding without the special permission of
the Pope himself.
On the 28:h uh., an at empt was made to
assassinate the Count Dilli, who is an
and director of the police. The stiletto struck
his Lip bone and made but a slight wrund.
The. Senate and Chamber of Deputies of
Belgium were prorogued on ihe 3d inst.
The Bourse, at Amsterdam, on the 3d inst.,
was firm.
From the Baltimore American.
LATE FROM CALIFORNIA
PER STEAMER ILLINOIS.
We announced csterday morning, that the
steamer II inoiF, ni te days from Chagres, and
tx from Kingston. bound to New York. put
into Norfolk oh Thursday for a supply oi coal.
She left on Thursday evening again for New
York.
She brings $1,138 284 gold dust on freight,
and $250,000 in hands of passengers.
Tn? splendid a I earner North America arrived
at Panama in 67 diva from New Yo-k, and 10
from Valparaiso, being the quicker voy
age ever made.
Since the Bth July, Valparaiso has been visit
ed by a' luccej-eicn of storms, doing much
damage to the shipping.
In Conception, the vote on the Presidential
election was in favor of General Crux by an
overwhelming majority, but not sufficient to
counteract Mont’ s majori’ies in other parts.
Tne rails are laid on the Copiapo Railroad, a
distance of 16 miles The track is spoken of
as excellent.
California items.— The San Francisco Her
ald of the 15th ult. says that considerable ex
citement exists a*, the present moment amongst
the British Colonial population in consequence
of the news recently received, of gold having
been discovered in the neighborhood of Bath
urit, New South Wales, and great numbers
are.preparing to leave now they fancy tney
have discovered an El Dorado of their own.
Mr. N. W. Brooks, who had arrived
from Rose’s Bar, slate* that a company of five
persons with whom he is engaged, have recent
ly taken out in sou- days fifty two pounds of
gold.
The Nevada Journal states that the Gold
Hilt Mining Company, at Grassa Valley, is
clearing in its operations between eight hun
dred and one thousand dollars per day.
A difficulty occurred a. Nevada on Satur
day between Mr. Alexander Brown and a man
by ’he name of Smith, which resulted in the
former shooting the latter. Sunday morning
when the stage left, it was feared that the ex
citement would eud in serious results, many of
Smi.h’s friends having declared they would
hang Brown. The wounded xran i. was
thought would die.
Capt. E. K Kane has declined accepting the
nomination of his Soutnern friends as Govern
or of the State.
Baron Steinberger, so well known in this |
vicinity a* the great beef speculator, is still |
figuring largely in California. On the occa-i
sion of on editorial convention at San Francis- ’
co be gave a grand entertainment to the mem- j
bers ; about City sat down to the table, end the '■
Herald says that nothing could exceed the ele- 4
gance and profusion displayed.
An ong the largest and finest buildings in
course of erection in the city are the two '■
three-story iron warehouses on Battery street, f
next to and precisely similar in size and
appearance to the U. S. bonded warehouse.
They were imported from Liverpool end are
owned by Cross & Co. They are constructed
throughout of iron, notaparticle of wood being
used for any purpose. The floors, partitions,
steps, rafters and roof are all of iron.
A fire occnred at Sacramento on the Ist of
August destroying about $30,000 worth of
ptoperty
LateJram Oregon.— The Pacific Mail Steam
eh.p Company's s earner Columbia, Capt-
LeKoy, arrived from Oregon on the 4 h.
G»n Gaines had returned after caking a
treaty with the Rogue River Indians, «h ch he
thinks »id be observed. Tne castigation giv
en the rava-ts by Major Kearney has had a
salutary effect.
Mr. F. L. Raymond, of Indiana, arrived on
the Ist instant, acioss the plains. He repre
sents the emigration as small.
m f r NT
j. < s -j ur n/I i •? 1 o 5 * * v ».h
* th* ChruuJcle dz.
LATER FROM EUROPE-
ARRIVAL OF THE
WASHINGTON.
ADVANCE IN COTTON OB' 1-B<l.
THREE DAYS LATER.
Liverpool Date, to the Ninth.
Charleston, Sept. 23.
The etuatuehip Washington has arrived with
Liverpool dates to the 9th inst.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, Sept. 9.—Cotton has advanced |d
since tho railing of the Etircpa. Sales on Tuesday
(9th) 10,000 bales.
FCHTHER BY THE WASHINGTON.
Chahuitoi, Sept 23.
Flour.—The lower qualities were iu fair de
mand, and prices unchanged. The bettor
qualities were languid. Corn was 6d. lower.
Best qualities are quoted 265. to 265. 6d. At
London, Sugar was not quite so firm, and buy
ers were asking concessions. Coflee continued
in fair demand. Tobacco was without change
Consols closed at 96j to 96|.
MISCALL. NKOUS.
Great preparations were making to receive
Kossuth at Southampton where he was daily
expected to arrive in the steamer Mississippi,
on bis way to the United States.
The news in regard to the Cuban expedi
ion had created great excitement in commercial
ci pies.
The advices from the Cape Good Hope
were unsatisfactory. Great uneasiness pre
vailed.
At Vienna on the 4th, the Money Market
exhibited a complete panic.
Tbe general news from the Continent is un
important'
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Niw York, Sept. 22.
The steamer Cherokee has arrived, bring
ing one day’s later dates from California.
There is no news of interest.
Explosion.—The steamer Jackson, burst
her boiler at Shawneetown, (111-, we presume)
last evening, killing and scalding 35 persons.
New York Market.
Monday, Sept. 22.—Cotton. —The Cotton mark,
et has been very quiet to-day.
New Orleans Market.
Tuesday, Sept. 23.—Cotton. —2000 Middling at
B}. Corn advanced, mixed 52. Whiskey 20.
Charleston Market.
Chablkston, Sept. 23. — Cotton— The sales to
day amount to 265 bales, at 6J to 9j cents. The
market is depressed, and prices in favor of buyers
From the Charleston Courier—By Telegraph,
New Orleans. Sept. 22—Cotton has de
clined to-day. The sales amount to 1200
bales. Middling is worth 8| cents. Ordinary
brands of Flour command $4. Lard is lower,
and in barreis is worth 9 cents.
Baltimore. Sept. 20.—A car containing
fifteen persona on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, rolled down a precipice near Cum
berland, killing three laborers, and dreadfully
wounding six others-
From the Baltimore American —by 1 tiegraph
Things in Bost >n.
Boston, Sept. 17 The President reached
this city about 12 o’clock and was received
with great military pomp and enthasias t, and
escorted to the Revere House The city is
full of strangers, and alive with flags and
streamers in every direction. The celebra
tion promises to be a great affair.
Boston, Sept. 18th.—The President and a
party of over 4000 embarked to-day, in the S
S. Lewis and (our other steamers, and made a
delightful excursion among the islands in tbe
ha’bor They d.ned and returned at 3£
o'clock. Lord Elgin arrived this evening, and
was met by an immense crowd, and welcomed
by Mayor Bigelow in a handsome speech, to
which he replied in appropriate terms. He
was then escorted to the Revere House
Boston, Sept 19.—We have a grand Mili
tary and Civic procession to day in honor of
our distinguished guests, which in size and
magnificence exceeds anything ever witnessed
here. The President is indisposed and cannot
appear. Lord Elgin and suite are present and
have been most enthusiastically received.
Boston, Sept. 19.—The President and
Secretaries Conrad and Stuart left at 5 o’clock
this evening for New Yoik. Mrs. Fillmore
was expected to join them at Fall River, and
the whole party would proceed thence to
Washington.
Bo ton, Sept. 20.—A deputation of Cana
disn visitor* waited on the Mayor this morn
ing, and through Sir Alan McNab delivered a
complimentary address, to which his honor
felicitou ly replied.
Lord Elgin and suite left ’he city by a special
train at o’clock this morning. His lordship
was accompanied part of the distance by a
committee.
Louisville, Sept. 16.—A terrible fire is now
raging hereon the South side of Main street,
near the corner of Second street.
The commission house of B. O. Davis, and
the Galt House are in flames. The firemen
are usmg strenous efforts to check the progress
of the conflagration.
Washington, Sept. 14.—A telegraphic des
patch received here from New Orleans, this
morning, at the Departments, states that the
prisoners in Cuba, one hundred and thirty in
number, were to have sailed for Spain on the
8?h instant. This intention has probably been
carried out, as there was no time for the inter
cession of this Governmeni to reach Havana.
Tbe benevolent intentions of the Pres cient
will not, however, flag, and it is understood
that he last s’eainer to Europe carried out
instructions to Mr. Barringer, our minister at
Madrid, to urge the Spanish government to
exercise mercy towards her unfortunate and
misguided prisoners.
The course of tho President will be warmly
approved by the whole American people.
No appointment has yet been made of Col
lector at New Orleans. Mr. Ferrell, however,
will not be retained.
The Christiana Outrage—We learn,
by a telegraph c dispatch to Wm. B. Reed,
Esq , District Attorney of i hiladelphia Coun
ty, that J L. Thoupton, Esq., Dial. Attorney
of Lancaster countv, yesterday proceeded to
the scene of the murder, and returned to Lan
cas er city this morning at 2 o’clock, having in
custody eleven prisoners, charged with parti
cipating in the ou rage.
The prisoners are composed of nine blacks
and two whites. The names of the latter are
Elijah Castner and Lewis Hanna way
They are commuted to Lancaster jail.
Ths morning the U. S. Marshal, Mr.
Roberts, the U. S. District Attorney, Mr. Ash
mead, and a special U. S. Commissioner from
Washington City, left in the ca s for Christi
ana, for the purpose of making a thorough
investigation of the high handed affair, and
arresting all suspected parlies.
These officers, with the view of properly
enforcing their authority, were accompanied
by a company of U. S. Marines from the Phila
delphia Navy Yard, and a detail of fifty of
Marshal police.
It was tha intention of Marshall Roberts to
scour the neighborhood and bring to justice ail
the guilty ones.
We are Hfoimed by several gentleman who
came passengers in the one o’clock train from
the west this afternoon, that great excitement
prevailed throughout Lancaster county. The
negroes are Seeing in every direction.
The State and local authorities who have
taken the lead in the ma’ter, have acted ?n the
promptest manner.
The U. States authorities have also exhibited
the most praiseworthy promptne«s in main
taining the law, end ferreting out those who
have so boldly resisted its execution.
The officers of the .Marshal’s police, who
went up were under an opinion of Mr. Reed,
depufized to act as U. 8. Deputy Marshals.
We understand that Judges Grier and Kane
have decided’he offence of the rioters to be
treason against the United States
Suspicion rests upon some fifteen or twenty
individuals— Phila. Bulletin. 13lh inst.
COUGHS, COLDS. &C.
Her cough was loud and frequent,
Her voice was low and w;ak.
And Gonsumption’s burning hectic
Seemed flushing in her cneek.
l( Her dea T h warrant, poor lady,”
The neighbors said, ‘‘ is signed ;
All the doctors could not save her
Were their knowledge all combined,"
But these gossips were mistaken,
Most happily deceived,
For by Dr. Jackson’s Syrup
She was rescued and reprieved,
Dr. jacksobts syrup op wild
CHERRY, a valuable remedy for Goughs,
Golds, dec. Price 25 cts. per bottle. For sale by
PHILIP A. MOISE and.
s2l D. B. PLUMB & CO.
pVARDIAS’S SALE.—WiII be sold, on the
vJT first Tuesday in DECEMBER next, before
tbe Court House door in Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, during tbe usual hours of sale, five hundred
and twenty-five, (525) acres of LAND, lying oa
tbe waters of Broad River, adjoining lands of Am
breae, Wilcher, Berry, Hartsfield and others, in
Ogfe horpe county. Sold as the property of Peter
R. Goohbey, minor orphan of Peter R. Goolsbey,
late ot Ogletbcrpe county, deceased. Sold by vir
tue of the inferior Court of the county of Heard,
while silting as a Court < f Ordinary, for the benefit
cf sai l minor. Terms on the day of sale.
WILLIAM M. SIMMS, Guardian.
September 24, 1851.
BACON. LARD AND FLOUR
Q ZA II II DS. Choice Bacon SIDES.
O VF 19 Hhds. Choice Bacon SHOULDERS.
25 Barrels Prime Leaf LARD.
50 Barrels Ba.timore FLOUR. Jaet received
and for sale by
fc24-dlwtf FSTES& RICHMOND.
INDIA-RUBBER DOLL HEADS. —Large
and Small, and at low prices, for sale by
524 THOMAS RICHARDS A SON.
P' EN HOLDERS.—THOMAS RICHARDS
•4 SON have now for sale, every variety of
Pen Holders. v;Z: Porcupine Quill, Pearl, Ivory,
Et-onv, Ac. ®24
NVELOPEs—Or every description <Ncte
and Letter) fine and common. For Sale bv
a24 THOS. RICHARDS A SON.
' SEED RYE.
BUSHELS of prime SEED RYE,
just received and for sale by
•6 6. D. UNION A CO.
Special Notices.
" : 7; . .
Tiie Franklin House, Augusta, Ga,
Sept., 6, 1951.
I have been visiting Augusta regularly every
year for tie last twenty, and a considerable portion
of tbe time, from four to six times a year. On my
last visit I stopped at the FRANKLIN HOUSE,
kept by Mr. Ramsey, and although the other Hotels
in tho city are very well kept, yet I cannot refrain
from giving expression to the fact, that I have never
visited any Hotel in Augusta half so well calculated
to make the traveller feel perfectly at home.
Without any thing gorgeous, or for mere display,
you find all the necessaries, and necessary lux
uries of the tables cooked and served up in the
very best country style, under the eye of Mrs.
Rumsey, whose attention to her guests, and manifest
solicitude for their comfort and convenience is un
surpassed by any lidy in Georgia, while Mr. Ram
sey’s exertions, early and late, are indefatigable to
tbe same end. Added to this, their servants seem
to partake of the same feeling and spirit, ail which
renders the “Frankling House,” emphatically the
traveller's rest. And last, though not least, the
charges are not only moderate, but very low,
sl7*dlwi Your-, tec., A. Farmer.
g jy- Adjournment of Elbert Superior
Court. —The Superior Court of Elbert county, to
be held on the 3rd Monday instant, by order of his
Hon. Eli H. Baxter, is adjourned until the 3rd
Monday in January, 1852.
Sept. 16th, 1851. WM. JOHNSTON, Clerk.
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AUGUSTA CANAL.
At a .Meeting of the Board of Managers of
the Augusta Canal, held at their office on the 16th of
September, inst., the following Resolution was pass
ed :
Whereas tbe Board of Managers, acting on the in
formation before them, and then deemed correct, that
by the use of the Augusta Canal, owners of Boats
navigating the same, saved from twelve to fourteen
dollars a trip on each boat, and that such owners had
made no reduction whatever in the freight, did at
their last meeting, impose a toll of Four Dollars on
each boat entering the Canal (equivalent to four
cents per bale on Cotton brought down, and two dol
lais on the return cargo) as some small compensation
for the use of a work constructed and maintained at
very heavy expense. And whereas, tbe Board have
B : nce been informed that the toss so imposed is deem
ed exorbitant, and desire time to confer with those
interested in the question, with a view of adjusting
it on fair and liberal terms —
Therefore, it is, Resolved, That tbe collection of
all tolls on boats be suspended until the farther or
der of the Board, and that a Committee of Two be
raised to confer, with as little delay as possible, with
planters, boat owners, and others interested, as to
what would be a reasonable rate of tolls; and that
notice of t :e tolls finally imposed be given by publi
cation in the City Papers at least twenty days before
they are demanded
Committee of Reference—W m. M. D’Antignac,
Dr. L. D. Ford.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Sec. B. M. A. C.
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MARRIED.
On the 18th inst., by Benjamin F. Latimer, Esq.,
at Rock Mills Factory, Mr. Irvin Lovet, of War
ion county, and Miss Jane Brooks, of Haaccek
county, formerly of Warren.
On the morning of the 23d Sept., by Rev. W. L.
Tucker, Mr. John M Jackson, «f Elbert county,
Ga., and Miss Amelia O. Holiday, of this city.
OBITUARY
Obituary Notices, not exceeding Six Lines
will be inserted in this journal without charge.
But when such notices exceed Six Lines, the
excess will in all cases be charged at the rate of 50
cents i er square of 12 lines, or less.
Dibd, in Tuskegee, Alabama, at the residence of
Dr. Mitchell, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Boyd, in the 44tb
year of her age. She was tbe daughter cf Holt and
Catherine Clanton, and was born in Columbia
County, Georgia, and attached herself to the Metho
dist Episcopal Church about 22 years ago, and sus
tained tbe character of a Christian, until she was
taken to rest in the bosom of the Saviour. Possessed
of a tender and benevolent heart, she was always
ready toforgiva, and many are those who have re
ceived at her hands such gifts as she could bestow.
For the last few years of her life, she was called to
pass through severe affliction of body and mind, but
the God in whom she trusted brought her safely
through them all. When informed by her Minister
that she mmt soon die, she received the intelligence
with perfect composure, saying that she bad no fears,
and was ready to depart; and when the power of
speech was gone, when interrogated as to her pros
pects, a Heavenly smile would tight up her counte
nance, and she would raise her hand and bow her
bead in token of victory. She has left a large cirele
of relations and friends in Georgia and AJaoamato
mourn her al sence from earth, but tuey sorrow not
as those wi'ho-it hope. May the Lord comfort her
afflicted family, and enable them to imitate her ex
ample, and meet her where parting shall be no
more.
(Homnurrial.
AUGUSTA mAUKET
Tubsday P, M.
COTTON.—At the close of our last weekly re
port. there was a good demand, a stiff market, and
prices very firm. On Thursday the market showed
signs of flagging, and on Friday, Saturday, Monday
and to day, has been decidedly dull, while prices
have receded | to | coat from the highest point of
last week. Tbe market closes very flat, with little
or nothing doing, owing to the disparity in the views
of buyers and sellers, the former only offering 6| ctt.
for Fair.
RE HARKS.—The general business of the city
continues to increase as the autumn advances, and
the prospects are fair for a good fall and winter trade,
for which our dealers seem determined, judging from
their rapidly increasing stocks, to be well prepared.
GROCERIES.—The supply continues u> increase
daily and bids fair to be very large. The leading
articles, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, &c., are
without change, and we would refer to our quota
tions, a fair index of the rates current.
BAGGING AND ROPE,—Notwithstanding the
increased demand for these articles the large supply
has caused a slight giving away in both, and our
quotations have been change i accordingly.
FLOUR.—The supply continues abundant.
BACON. —The stock is growing light and prices
are very firm. See Quotations.
GRAIN.—The supply of Corn is equal to the de
mand, and prices are without change. Wheat con
tinues to command SI.OO to $1.25 per bushel ac
cording to quality, the latter price lor the very best
white.
EXCHANGE.—Checks on the North are j per
cent prern.
FREIGHTS.—The river is now at the lowest
point of the season, end navigation by steamboats to
the wharfo impossible. The companies are doing
something by lightering for six or eight miles bslow
the city. The rate on cotton to Charleston and Sa
vannah is 50 cents per bale.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 22. — Cotton. — The cotton
market continues to flag daily in price. The trans
actions during the three business days comprise
about 1200 bales, as follows, viz : 7 at 8 ; 37 at 8* ;
33 at 7* ; 35 at 8f ; 82 -t 9 ; 163 al 9* ; 305 at 9*;
50 a 9 5-16 ; 117 at 9* ; 112 at 9| ;46at 9| • and
b 9 bales at 10c.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 23.—Cotton^—There has
been a fair demand for the past three dayr, but tne
stock on sale being very light the transactions have
been limited to 108 bales at previous prices. The
following are the particulars: 25 at 7; 41 at 9; 30
at 9j ; Bat 9*; and 4at 9* cents.
AUGUSTA PRICESCURRENT.
Article*. Wholesale. Retail.
BAGGING.—Gunny., per yard $ 15 a $ 15*
Kentucky. “ none.
Dundee u 11 a 13
BAGON.—Hams per lb. 12* a 14
Shoulders.. •••• .... “ 10 a 11
Sides 11 12* a 13*
Hog round.. “ —a
BUTTER.—Goshen « 25 a 30
Country “ 10 a 25
BEESWAX.— “ 18 a 20
BRIGKS— per 1,000 5 50 a 6 00
CHEESE. —Northern* ••-per lb. 9 a 11
English Dairy. “ 11 a 12*
COFFEE.—Rio “ 9* a 11
Laguira*......... • <• 10* a 11*
Java “ 13 a 14*
DOMESTIC GOODS.—Yarns 80 a 90
f Shirting ••• * ••• ..per yard 6 a 7
* “ “ 61 « 7
1““ 8 a 8
5- “ «< 9* a 10
6- “ “ 11 a 14
Osnaburgs- “ 9* a 10*
FEATHERS— per lb., dull, 30 a 32
PISH. —Mackerel. No. 1 per bbl. 13 00 a 14 50
No. 2 “ 11 00 a 11 50
No. 3 “ 7 00 a & 00
No. 4 “ 5 50 a 6 00
Herrings per box —a 1 00
FLOUR. —Country-... per bbl. none.
Tennessee “ 5 50 a 6 00
Gand “ 6 25 a 800
Baltimore* u 5 50 a 6 50
Hiram Smith’s-... • ** 750 a 800
” City Mills 525 a 800
GRAIN. —Corn par bash. 85 a 1 00
Wheat “ 1 00 a 1 25
Oats “ 50 a 60
Rye “ none
Peas • “ 80 a 90
GUNPOWDER.—
Duponts’ per keg 5 00 a 5 50
Hazard “ 5 00 a 5 50
LARD— per lb. 12 a 14
LlME—Country-....... per box none
Northern-••• per bbl. 200 a 225
LUMBER— per 1,000 13 00 a 15 00
MOLASSES. —Cuba., .per gall. 25 a 28
Orleans ** 40 a 45
NAILS— per lb. 3* a 4
OlLS.—Sperm, prime*, .per gall. 1 50 a 1 75
do common. “ 75 a 1 00
Refined whale*. •• • u 70 a 87
Train “ 65 a 70
Linseed “ 1 05 a 1 51
Castor M 175 a 200
ROPE.—Kentucky per lb. 8* a 9*
Manilla-- “ 13 a 14
RICE— per tierce 3| a 4
RAISINS— per box 250 a 350
SPIRITS. —Northern Gin, pr gall. 35 a 40
u Rum “ 35 a 40
N. O. Whiskey “ 30 a 33
Peach Brandy* 11 75 a 1 00
Apple do u 50 a 75
Holland Gin “ 1 25 a 1 75
Cognac Brandy-. ... “ 1 50 a 250
SUGARS.—N. Orleans., per lb. 6* a 8
Porto Rico •• 7 a g
St. Croix “ 8 a 10*
Loaf- “ 10* a 11
Crushed u 10 a 11
Powdered “ 10* a Hi
Havana white “ 9 a 11
“ brown “ 7 a 9*
“ clarified ••• • “ 9 a 10
SALT. —Liverpool gr’d per bush. 45 a 50
“ per sack 125 a 137
Blown “ 3 00 a 3 50
SOAP.—Yellow per lb. 5 a 6
SHOT — per bag —a 162
TWINE. —Hemp Bagging per lb. 18 a 25
Cotton wrapping...... u 15 a 25
GREEN GINGER.— a supply just received
by 523 WM H. TUTT.
Spirits turpentine-lu Barrets m
store, and for aaie low by
sio WM. H. TUTT.
JlKettUancatw.
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THE Copartnership of BInUU 4
make, in the practise of Law, will be diseolv
ed on the first day of Ootober, by mutnd convent.
Both will continue the piactice separately. »<>«-
nen for Col. F. may be left with Mr. S. until he
returns home.s2l-w3t
LUMBER, LUMBER.
THE public are informed that snr Saw Millie
completed, end in full operation, and we are
prepared to fill orders for all descriptions of LIM
BER, at tbe shortest notice. Our Mill is situated at
Dealing, on the Georgia Rail Road, 30 miles above
Augusts. s2O-w4 BAKER, GRUBLE & CO.
Premium Seed Wheat.
J VST received, sixty packages of fine WHITE
WHEAT, raised by Mr. P. H. Greene, of Troup
county, and for sale at fifty cents per package. This
Wheat is beautiful and very heavy, and took the
premium at the Atlanta Pair. Samples to be seen at
our office of the Wheat, and Flour ground from it.
sl2 w 3 D’ANTIGNAC, EVANS & CO.
C. A. LIGHTFOOT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
WarrentonGeorgia.
WILL practice in the Counties of the Northern
Circuit, in Greene of the Ocmulgee, and in
Washington, Jefferson and Colum -ia of the Middle
Circuit. s!4-wtf
T. A. Bubkb. j C. W. Duune.
BURKE & DEMING,
BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS
ItXWSPArKK AND periodical agents,
And Deahroin Fancy Article*, Piano*, Mucic,
Madison,Georgia.
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Musquit Grass Seed.
THE Subscriber, unabb to attend personally to
future applications for Grass Seed, has depos
ited Seed with W. S. Jones, at the Chronicle <fc
Sentinel office, at Augusta, Ga , where persons wish
ing Seed can be supplied.
_s23 JAMES THOMAS.
Lime Lime.
CASKS fresh Thomaston LIME, now
VF landing and for tale by
523-d&wtf ESTES & RICHMOND.
NOTICE.
THE ondersifitned haring united their interest
in the Dry Goode line, in the City of Augusta,
will continue the business at the old stand of James
Miller (Jo., under the firm and etyle of Millkr
A Wakun, where they will keep a large and well
selected STOCK OF GOODS, to which they re
spectfully invite the attention of their old customers
and the public generally.
JAMES MILLER & CO.,
se P 7w3m&dlm L. C. WARREN & CO.
NEW WORKS.
JUST received at GEO. A. OATES <&. CO.’S,
the following New Works, vis :
Katharine Walton ; or the Rebel of Dorchester;
by W. G. Semmee, author of The Partisan, dfcc.
Pan 3 Lewis Arundel.
Lewis Arundel, complete ; and a variety of similar
P. D P EL ’
Xfk BOXES Perry Davis’ PAIN KILLER,
vF just received direct from the Proprietor.
sl9 WM. H. TUTT.
CURE FOR CORNS,-Littlefield’s CORN
SHIELDS, a certain cure for corns, Bunions
■fcc. These are highly approved of and give gen
eral satisfaction. A supply just received and for
sale by s2l PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist.
BYHUP AND MOLASSES.
TWENTY barrels Stuart’s SYRUP,
50 bbls. N. O. MOLASSES, for sale by
sI2HAND, WILLIAMS & CO.
Cheese.
PRIME English Dairy CHEESE, for sale by
s!3 BAKER & WILCOX.
CHEESE
BOXES prime CHEESE, just received
O VF per Steamer, and for sa'e by
e!2 HAND, WILLIAMS & CO.
Ring-worm and Tetter Wash,
THE Subscriber is now offering for rale a
RING-WORM AND TETTER WASH,
which is warranted to cure in instance. It ia
prepared from the Recipe of one of the most emi
nent Physicians in the United States, who has used
it in bis practice for twenty years with the greatest
success. Price, per bottle, 25 cent-.
Prefared and sold by
s 6 d&w WM. H. TUTT, Druggist.
Kentucky Bagging.
A FEW pieces of prime Kentucky BAGGING
for sale low by
ee3 BAKER &* WILCOX.
GRENVILLE’S ALMANAC FOR 1852
JS NOW IN PRESS, and will be ready for
delivery early in SEPTEMBER.
This Almanac will contain its usual amount of
statistical information, corrected to the latest dates,
together with a revised list of all the Post Offices in
Georgia—Many of Georgia and Alabama, t Interest
Tables, &c , &c.
Orders from the trade, or Merchants generally,
shall have prompt attention.
J. A. CARRIE & CO., Publishers.
Augusta, August 27, 1851. au27-w!0
———- NOTICB
i SHALL, after tbe expiration of sixty days,
apply to the Mechanics’ Bank of Augusta, for tho
payment of a Bill of the denomination of One Hun
dred Dollars. Tbe left hand half of which was en
closrd in a letter addressed to Thos. N. Beall, at Tal
botton, by me, which has not since been heard of.
The right hand half is in my possession, and is thus
described: No. 959, dated Oct. Ist, 1850. Thoe.
S. Metcalf, President.
sl6 w2mROBERT B. BOSTWIQK.
VALUABLE PLANTATION AND
NEGROES FOR SALE.
ON THE first Tuesday in JANUARY next,
will be offered for sale in Louisville, Jefferson
county, Ga., the Real and Personal Estate of George
O’K. White, of said county, deceased, consisting,
in part, of about Five Thousand Acres of Oak, Hick
ory and Pine LAND, on the eastern side of Wil
liamson Swamp. The Central Railroad runs through
the tract, from 112 to 115 mile posts. About 1,400
acres are open and under goo I fences. The balance
is heavily timbered, mostly with Pioe. i
Also, 42 NEGROES, about 32 of whom are
working hands.
2,000 Acres, including the Plantation, will be of
fered in one parcel. The balance in lo.s of 500
acres each. Live Stock, Implements, Corn, Fodder,
with sundry other chattels, will be sold on the plant
ation the day following.
The whale of the above stated property may be
treated for at private sale anterior to the first Mon
day in November next. Terms will be liberal.
Fcr further particulars apply to
WILLIAM C. POE, Adm’r., Macon, Ga.
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THE MONTGOMERY MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY’S IRON-WORKS,
Montgomery,Alabama,
a z fl ANUFACTURE, in superior style, Hori-
LvlL zontal aud 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 LATHES; Iron and Brass CAST
INGS, of all kinds, dtc., Jfcc,
All orders «i<e v‘«n lt»sn«j»cb.
ap22 GINDRAT & CO.
REUBEN RICH’S PATENT CENTRE
VENT IRON WATER-WHEEL,
Manufactured at the Montgomery Manuacturing
Company's Iron- Works,
Montgomery,Alabama.
IA/' K RESPECTFULL Y call the attention
v v Manufacturersand Mill-owners to the follow
ing response from Mr. Rich, tbe Patentee of the
above celebrated Water- Wheel.
Vendors of Patents frequently attempt to intro
duce their articles to the public with high-sounding
promises and loud praises, which mean nothing.
Mr. Rich, on the contrary, has always been ready
and frequently offered to test the capabilities of his
Wir el, against all oJiers, under any named forfeit
ure. His challenges have never been accepted. He
now accepts the challenge of others, and presents
even more tempting offers. We are prepared to en
ter into the test for him, and will, at any time, ad
vance tbe required amounts. If gentlemen intend io
“show their faith by their works,” let them come
forward. GINDRAT & CO.
Montgomery, April 2. 1851.
BEWARE OF HUMBUGS!
My attention having been called to an advertise
ment in your paper, over the signature of Jaggbb,
Treadwell <& Perry, challenging all other-wheels,
I now declare myself prepared to accept the chal
lenge upon ail the grounds specified, naming SSOO
as :he sum upon each point.
Ist. 1 will bet SSOO that no other wheel, patented
or not, wiH give out as large a per centage of power,
under a like head and volume of water.
2d, That no wheel can be more durable.
3d. That no wheel can be more simple.
4tb. That none is cheaper.
sth. That no wheel is more steady.
6th. That the Rich Wheel is wholly superior to
the Vandewater Wheel.
And again. There being those who are disposed
to question the fact that the Rich Wheel discharges
but half its measurement of apertures. I will bet
SI,OOO that the discharge does not exceed one-half
the apertures on a well constructed and adjusted
Rich Wheel, actual experiment having demonstra
ted that it discharges in reality but 2-sths of the
apertures, so that a wheel measuring “ 400 inches
in its discharge apertures ” really vents less than
2001 The depth of the water in the tail race, is no
criterion for estimating the quantity discharged, un
less reference is had to the speed with which it runs
off. For example; from the ordinary flutter-wheel,
under 10 feet head, the water runs off at the rate of
18 to 20 feet per second. From my Wheel, under
same head, it runs off at less than * of this speed,
and from this consequent slowness of motion, a thou
sand gallons per minute, from my Wheel, would cre
ate as much depth in the tail race as four thousand
from the flutter-weel from whieh the water runs with
quadruple rapidity.
Bear in mind, therefore, that unless speed is
regarded, the depth in the tail race is no criterion
wnateve? of quantity, and that the only true esti
mate is to ascertain wbat aperture, alongside, or un
der the same head and pressure with the wheel, will
exhaust a given number cf gallons of water in the
same space of time. REUBEN RICH.
P. S. Having just learned that the Agents of tbe
Vandewater wheel represent that my Wheel dis
charges even more tnan its apertures; now, to test
their sincerity, 1 will bet them, or any other person
who may question that the discharge of my wheel
is more than half its apertures, aa follows:
Ist. $5,000 to $2,000, that it does not, (as the
Vandewater Agents claim) vent more than its aper
tures.
2d, $5,000 to £2.000, that it does not discharge
equal to its apertures.
3d. $3,000 to $1,500, that it don’t discharge jds
its apertures.
4tb. SI,OOO, that the discharge is not one-half the
apertures.
sth. SI,OOO, that the discharge is but 4-l Otha tbe
apertures.
And then I w;ll present the acceptor of the above
bets, SSOO, on his depositing the money to cover
them, with SI,OOO to cover expenses of trial, whic •
the winner will be entitled to, in one of the Augusta
Banks, where I wilt as promptly make a correspond
ing deposit. And again—l will bet any sum that
the Vandewater Wheel, with same apertures as
mine, discharges one third more water. Now,
where is their boasted faith ?
«p2O REUBEN RICH.
WARREN COUNTY, GEO.—Whereas,
Eljah Gonner, Exector on the estate of Eli
jah Conner, Sr., la’e of aaid county, deceased, ap
plies for letters diemissory on aaid estate—
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and app -ar at my office, within the ti ne pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters shou d not be granted.
Given under my baud at office in Warrenton..
Al AM JONES, C. C. O.
September 14,1851.
UUTCHING’S DYSPEPTIC BITTERB, tor
sale by *23 WM, H. TUTT.
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