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<%omdc & Sentinel.
Fdlurlil Corrrepwndonre of the DUpatrK
Washington, Wilms Cos., >
August 30th, 1859. $ |
A large crown assembled at the Court House to- !
day to witness the discuss.on between Messrs, j
W right and Jones. According to agreement be
tween the speakers. Wright was to lead off in a
-pris bof one hour and a half, far Jones, to follow i
in a speech of two hours and Wright to have half ‘
an bour in conclusion.
Mr W. explained to the audience bow be came ‘
to be a candidate, that when it was found impoasi- j
bie to induce the Hon Chaa. J. Jenkins to run as j
a n independent candidate—at the solicitation of
jriendstie bad been induced to occupy the position. ’
There bad been some ridicule attempted to be c ast i
upon him for Lis position It has been raid that .
.nee tbe organization of the govermeDt a party \
i invention had never nominated au indepeudant .
candidate. Mr. W ti.ought that it was lime that
both people and candidates should adopt an inde
ner.'lan’ courts. He then went into a explanation
:,l the tnat tier in which Conventions were generally
got up. Showed bow at tLf Warrentcn Conven !
non all tbe prominent candidates of the Democra
tic party were thrown a?ide and Mr. Jones nomica- :
at the last resort. Mr. W. did not profess to |
l>e the ary party or the exponent of &dv j
platform.
In tbe .1 .*•< u-*ioo of all political questions in this ;
country one eeoe—that of slavery—met us i
at Ue very OBtut. We had been told that it was
Tr.? sml sV le—that it had been settled in 1850 •
!.sOh settlement Lad been declared a fir.aiity by •
l.’onifreee end by ail party Convention*. Yet, we ;
tcuiiW that we had been deceived, that it had not i
fettled ka a finality, that by the l-Kielauon oi :
If o 4 another Presidential election be in*; at hand, ‘
small politicians had found it necewaiy to ;
ie-operi it for the sake of political capital. In 185*3, I
when Fillmore declared the revival of the question
a Pandora * box, from which proceeded maLy of
tbe political evil* of the country,he was denounced
over all the South Mr W. showed that the Kan
r-as bill, in its effects, Lad justified the opinion of
Mr. Fillmore, and that the South had been deceiv
ed, and im- ant ed Mr Jverecn as one of the lead
era of the lietnooratic patty who had the candor
to acknowledge that he had been cheated. Mr VV.
went into a history of the K&uriA* bill pointed
ons the difference between it and the If tab and
New Mexico bills . showed that the resolution* of
tbe Georgia legislature, approving the Kanaa*
Nebraska act, were passed before the provisions of
tbe act were known
Mr. W gave a hietory of the bill, allowed that it
did not repeat the Missouri <>m promise line which
Lad been already rendered inoperative by the
Utah and New Mexico bill*, and the language of the j
Karma* act showed that to be the a*e. Ah to the \
Dred Scott decieion.it wa* identical with the poei ;
rioniot the Opposition in 1855 and the Democracy j
Lai Oaeu compelled to occupy the -nine position* j
Mr W reviewed Douglas pet plan of excluding !
slavery from the territories by unfriendly legieia j
ti*>n and hit) action in striking out of tbe Kantian j
nil! the clause protecting slavery. Mr. Wright then j
demanded that Southern men should fit and rirm for
equal protection of their property in the tern \
riel* arid should repudiate those by whom they bad
been deceived—for the bill wan a cheat and a
swindle—in that it had been eo declared in the
•tenato and that if the Douglas interpretation of it
nad been correct, not a single Southern man would
nave voted for it.
i r annot. for tear ot making my report too long,
follow Mr W through hie expose ot tbe extrava
vanr e of the Administration , its conduct as to the
p*>-t Offices and routes, as to the education of the
Kcho Africans and tbe Pacific Railroad. He ridi
ruled the subterfuge of Democrats in attempting to
•how that six Americana in the House wuerespon
ible for the most of the misdeeds of the Adminis
fration and a*ked how Mr. Toombs and Mr. Jones
gdld any that he could do nothing it sent to Con
having no party to act with, when six
American* were powerful enough to thwart so
aiany measures of the Democracy. He denounced
w<* fuli<e the endeavor to class the Opposition party
with the Mark Republicans.
Mr. Wright, in conclusion, called ou tbe audience
to ask any questions they thought proper, and
called on Jon*a to say whether he endorsed with
toe Democratic Convention the ability and patriot
ism of Mr. Huohanan, and farther, w hether he
would support Douglas
Mr Jones said he appealed beioretbe people of
Wiikes county as the nominee ot the Democratic
Convention, and then informed the people that
- thrice armed was he who had his quarrel a just
one, and moreover, that “ truth crushed to earth
would rise again,” in , and besides that “ eternal
vigilance was the price of liberty,” and therefore he
wrj glad to see so many present. He seemed
puzzled a* Mr W right’s position, a nominee of a
party, aud yet independent nobody had ever
beard of a party candidate who was independent.
Mr Wright protested to stand on the Constitution
-“Ham” bad stood on the Constitution—all parties
professed to do the same. When Mr. Wright gets
to Congress being bound by no party ties, be will
do what he pleases—he will revive “ B*m. ” That
r(Mr. Jones) stood on the Cincinnati platform,
and there he intended to stand, no matter it Mr.
riuohajoau had deserted It.
That, in relation to the question of slavery in the
territories all the territorial bills restricted the deci
sion of it to the time of forming the State Constitu
tion It had bean said that the Democrats admit
ted there wa* squatter sovereignty in the Kaunas
Mil. Mr J. cited the Cincinnati Platform, to prove
the contrary, there was no squatter sovereignty in
the bill, none in the Cincinnati Platform. Hut the
opposition say the bill is sueoeptible ot twoconstruo
lions —there never wan a man in C ingress who
•aid th*re could be two constructions—but if there
bad been, tln-re is nothing, even the Bible, that is
Miot susceptible of two constructions. It :s objected
go the bill tiiat it don’t protect our rights in the
territories Mr. J. did not deny our right to pro
tection, but thought it was not a practical question
necausH the Supreme Court has derided it, and be
rAUse all partus at the South had agreed to abide
by t**a doctrine of non-intervention, and Mr. ,J was
willing to stand on the Georgia Platform without
any news planks,such as W’right and Hill wanted.
There baa be®n unfriendly legislation, and if we
(inked tor friendly legislation Congress might give
us unfrierdly. The reason why Kansas was not a
slave State was tiiat six Americans had voted
ngaiiiAt it. It they bad voted for it, the vote would
f.ave stood 118 to II t. What more could the De-
IJK craoy do 1 They had gotten up the Lecompton
and the English bills ; live Americana had voted
against the latter, and defeated that also, aud the
Democracy had to bear the blame. Joshua Hill
bad voted fcr the English bill, or paired off, which
vvam the same thing
A* to the expenditures—f he outs always complain
*d K.f the ins about spending The opposition dif
feisil as to the amount spent, the Msoon Conven
110 nsaid PHI millions, while the Dispatch reported
Mr. Wright to have put the amount at 83 millions,
li e thirty-third Congress was a Democratic ma
imity. had spent less than tbe thirty-fourth, which
Lad a Hlai k Republican speaker. Against all the
appropriation* for internal improvement, a major
ity of Democrats had voted, while a majority ot the
Opposition had voted for them Tbe proper way
to stop extravagance was to send those to Con
uress who would vote against it.
Mr. Jones gave a history of the Post. Bill, aud
attempted to excuse the administration for stopping
mail routes. The rich men suffer from their die
continuances as well as the poor. It was demago-
to talk about the poor mans letters and
papeis. Mr Jones was not there to talk about poor
men
As to the education of the Echo Africans, Mr.
Cobti denies that one dollar was spent for the pur
pose He believed Mr. Cobb in preference to
Wright, as the latter was in Jefferson county, and
ibn former in Washington City. Mr. Munroe’s
administration paid SIOOO each for carrying negroes
back to Africa, while Mr Buchanan only expended
sls*l.
He contended that the Pacific Railroad had oever
been a Democratic measure—that the Cincinnati
Convention wore opposed to it, and that the
Democracy in Congress had always voted against
it. Mr. sci lime re was the first to propose an appro
tion for surveying the route of a Pacific Railroad
it Mr. Wright hue uo party, he ought to leave
the Democracy, aud >et he keeps lollowiog him
‘Mr. Jones) around, trying to des roy all the de
ience he makes of that glorious old party, so when
you come to look a; it, it is a very hard matter to
make a stump speech, as Wright has no principle*
except Opposition. Hut the Opposition keep their
principles hid -that know the odium of Know
flothingiein Mr. ,1 then went into a history of
parties and showed that the Opposition were Know
Nothings—showed how the Democracy were op
poeed to the Kansas excitement, sectionalism]and
Saro*—bow Messrs. Neebit, Crawford, Toombs and
Stephens had takeu position with the Democracy,
and there they will stand while Daincciacy last-*.
Mr J. then went farther into the history et “.Sam,”
told how hie schemes against the Constitution and
the Cuion, and to eutrap tbe simple and unwary
were fortunately upset by the Democracy getting
told of a ritual After the defeat of 1856, it was
thought there would beau end ot the Kuow Noth
luge, and that they would all turn Domes rats—but
there was a grievous dioappointraaut. Mr. Jones
then went on to give an imaginary address
delivered at Macon, bv J. H. K Washington, to
the American Central Committee, in which Mr
Washington was eupposhd to dolinaata the plans
for heating the Democracy.
Mi J. then gave a glow.ug picture .I tbe glori
ous deeds of tbe democracy, led by “ bis illustrious
predecessor —and gave assurance that he would
follow in his footsteps. He then made an eveur
turn on the Ship of State, aud calluig ou a certain
gentleman named Mac Duff, to ‘ lay ou aud d— *
Gov Brown.be said, had made a good Governor,
aud every lkd> was going to vote for him (very
•troug sign o ot ditteeul m the crowd.) be bad made
a capital financier, aud would not stump the .state,
although the opposition had found out that Gov
Johnson had made more money out of the State
R-ad tfcgu Brown had. But the beet reason for
voting for £lrowu, was that he was a Democrat
Here followed .another short trip ou the Ship ot
State, wiih the Aps'stle Haul as Captain Mr. Jones
did not answer the questions propounded by Mr
Wright, whether he #cdor*ed the ability and pa
motiem of Buchanan, ami whether he would sup-
port Douglas.
Mr. Wright's re joinder was perrectly excoriating.
Be demolished without an effoit ad the cobweb de
fences of Mr. Jones . showed bow Mr. Fillmore,
upon whom bad been saddled mauy ot the sine ot
.he present administration, was endorsed by Mr.
‘rooud>s and Stephens and otht r Democratic lead
ets. How the people had answered the Algerine
charge made by Mr. Jones against Mr. Jenkins in
1853, by their vote, when Mr. Jenkins got 574, and
Mr Jones ISJ. showed up the mistakes and mis
statements of Mr. Jones tn his own inimitable and
mesi’tiblr manner. The crowd, which throughout
Mr Jones’ speech, had been impatiently calling
occasionally tor Wright, greeted him with a storm
of applause, and their cheers would scarcely permit
the orator to be beard.
The occasion had been an exciting one to the
steadfast and sterling triends of Cos!. V.’ in Wilke-,
and ito effects will be seen on the day of election in
the b'gvy vote for Wright Some of our friends
hope to cut down tbe Democratic majority to no
i lifij Mm — sanguine claim a majority tor
nur t ‘ tngrceMonal candidate- C
PrZir^t Marietta Patriot
Mure icons Hi V on the SStntc Koad.
A tare exhibition of tbe econo'iy of Jar L.
Br.urn. and Sp.kty Lev u, is die
played at tue Big Shanty oa the Western A- At
lantic Kabroad some seven miles from this plat e
A; that place, John W. I.ewis has had erected a
Puihbng for a breakfast or eating bouse, built
and paid for out ot the State's money, hence it is
the oommoti property of the State.
Tbe present keeper, Mr. Kendrick, who is a
great favorite ot tbe Superintendent, rented tbe
house for the pitiful sum of one hundred and
•igbiy dollar* per annum, when the Superintend
ent was otiered two thousand and five hundred
per annum for it.
Difference In favor of tbe personal and political
friend of tbe Governor and hi s Superintendent of
*9,330 00.
Now we ak. why this favoritism ’
Why this unjust draoriminauon at the expense of
tbe State for the sole purpose of enriching one
mss f
Is fkeie a sane man in Georgia, who knows
Joe Brown and John W. Lewis, that believes ei
ther ot them would make a simitar bargain in
their private domestic attains We can answer
They .rjn'J n •
Is not John \\ . Lewis an equal partner in the 1
Breakfast House at tbe Big Slantp Krom oir- |
cumetsooes which have occurred, i; >s beheved that
he is.
Does Doctor Lewis deny being interested ra said
bouse f
Tar Seventh District. —We learn by a nri I
vate let’er, that Col. A H Kenan and Hon Joebua j
HUI, bad an interview a tew days since. and wiih
a magnauiun! y that has ever characterised his po
litical conduct. Col Kenan has withdrawn tis name i
11-om the canvass We are truly gratified that this
dilJoß-ty has been arranged . and while we cheer
fully fake down our friend s name, and substitute
Hou. Joebua Util e in tbe place, we are pr, ltd of the
generous, noble, self sacrificing spirit that preferred
ins own retirement to the detest ot hie party and its
principle* Let us cot forget Col. Kenan, in tbe
Store!—ami let every true friend rally to Mr Hill,
and save th* Oietnct to the Opposition—Moron
Citizen, Sep ‘A *
Birth Extraordinary The wifeot a labeling
man in Mewaik.Kew Jersey, was delivered on
Wednesday eight last, of three sons at one birth,
averaging in weight more than live pounds each
gu are alive and doing well.
From the Empire Stair.
Hon. A, Iverocn—HD Aailanie— Disunion.
Gov. Johnson —Judge
Tbe cours-e which has been pursued by certain
presses in the State towards tbe Hen. A. Iverson—
their bitter personal a-eaulta—their eager efforts to
excite distrust in him on account of L.a so called
disunion sentiments, must appear palpably insin
cere and inoonsifi*ent, when it is remembered that
these identical prases are warmly advocating the
claims of other mdividae’.a, whose views in re
gard to Southern rights and disuuion, are, in no ma
terial point, different from tboee entertained by
Senator Iverroo. Have the “ Federal Union,”
the “ Telegraph,’’ and the “ Atlanta Intel
ligencsr,” abandoned the “Georgia Platform?”
Dare either of these papers announce their sub
mitnior. to the rule of a Black Republican Presi
dent, elected “ upon a s*ctwna’ and anti davery
t>tnr Will Gov . Johnson or Judge McDonald,
tbe tavorites of the presses which have
eo vindictively denounced Judge Iverson, take
their position upyn a platform U*t sound ! Do
they no occupy lees exalted Southern ground than
they did in year* gone by, when the danger was
more remote azd not eo threatening as it now is ?
Pray, gentlemen, in what consists the essential
difference between Judge Iverson, Gov. Johnson
and Judge McDonald, upon questions involving
the /rights of the South and a dissolution of the
Union ’ Did not Judge McDonald preside over
a “ Southern Convention held exprepjJ.y for de
vising measures of redrew* tor Southern grievan
ces, and to provide a pian for the dissolution of the
Union upon tbe happening of certain contingen
cies?
Has any abler or more ultra pen than his been
wielded in defence of the South, or in suggesting
plans fora dissolution? Did not Gov. Johnson
approve the calling of the “Southern Conventions, ’
and endorse their proceedings ? Has his powerful,
patriotic voice not neen heard repeatedly and earn
frttly sounding the alarm, and counseling resistance
to the Northern aggression, “even to the disruption
of every tin that binds us to the Union?” Often
has he been heard to but I defiance at our Northern
foes, and warn them to stay their ruthless hands
from despoiling us of our rights and property, or eise
employ them in gathering tne scattered fragments of
a once glorious Union. Who has been more bitter
in bi* denunciations of “Union submissionists” than
he 7 Whose lip curled with more indignant scorn,
or a more contemptuous “sneer, ■* at a “Union”
employed for nursing the fanatical invaders of our
rights—tor tbe aggrandizement of one half its citi
z-ne, to the disgrace and oppression of the other
bait ■ For their manly defence of Southern rights,
and for their scathing denunciations of timid and
cowardl y subrnttionists, we honored these men.—
Ah yet, we have seen no reason to withdraw our
confidence from them, or to suspect them of reced
ing from the high ground they once occupied, save
in the fact, that their leading champion-* are among
tbe tampet submisriouiate
Are tbese new hghtt of Democracy —these bold
defenders of Southern rights, who believe “that
slavery is a thousand times more safe in the Union
than out of it”—that, “the evils of which Judge
Iverson complains would be increased ten fold by
disunion’—who “can not seethe least advantage
to be gained by it” at any time or nncbr any cir
cumstances —these true Southern (?) men, who
would submissively bow their necks to tbe yoke
and bare their backs to the merciless lash of their
Northern masters —are they exponents of
the principles noir advocated by Gov. .Johnson and
Judge McDonald ? We call upon you, gentlemen,
to gif e us the views at present entertained by
these once valiant champions of the South—point
out wherein they dissent from those recently pro
mulgated by Judge Iverson in the Senate and at
Griffin, for which you have ao heartily condemned
him, and are now seeking to immolate him upon
the aliai of the Union. Show us the precise point
at which the roads marked out by them begin to
diverge—let us see which leads North—which
South—which to tbe Union with abolition—which
to the South aud slavery—let us kuow whose backs
are turned upon their homes, their rights and their
property —let us see w’ho*e hands are raised to
strike in defence of the South and her institutions,
whose are raised to grasp the glittering prize of
national honors.
Open the record—untold its pages—wake the
slumbering words of Johnson and McDonald—let us
see if they speak not the language of resistance
and disunion. We doubt not that an honest appeal
to the past, and a true exposition of the present
opinions of those two gentlemen, will demonstrate
that they differ in no essential particular from those
ot Senator Iverson. He invokes disunion as a
remedy against the evi s consequent upon an
infraction of the “Georgia Platform,” or the
election of a Black Republican Pre-ident “upon
a sectional and anti-slavery issue” Will they
do lets? Those whose rights and interests
they seek to represent and deiend, have a right to
kiH*w their precise opinions with reference to them.
The people ot Georgia na\e ever believed them
sound and firm in regard to all matters touching
their vital interests. Their organa are yielding such
doleful songs of lamentation at the prospects of dis
union—they are sounding forth such humble toues
of submission, that their former friends aud sup
porters have been roused by the discord, and are
wonderiug whether they proceed from the same
source as did the stirring notes of “Southern
Rights”—‘’Resistance’’—“Disunion,” that fell upon
their ears in days gone by. There is euch a deci
ded whining twang about these sounds, that a
shrewd suspicion is beginning to arise in the minds
of the people of Georgia that there is something
“rotten in Denmark.” These presses oppose and
villify Iverson and advocate the claims of John
son and McDonald—their invidious comparisons
develop their motives too plainly for them not to
be seen and heartily condemned by every noble, in
genuous mind.
From the Albany Patriot.
Alfred I vernou -Why l be Assailed by n For
lion of Ills own Flirty Press f
This iB a question that needs some response more
satisfactory than any yet mad- public. Judge
Iverson was elected entirely by Democrats to the
place be now holds iu the U. S. Senate. He has
not been arraigned for want ot ability, or fidelity
to his party or country. Neither in our experience
or reading have we known the election of Senator
made a matter of public discussion in Georgia be
fore Ihe convening of the Legislature upon which
an election devolved. And then very rarely—if
ever—have counter claim j been agitated in the
newspapers between candidates c f the same political
party. Members of the Legislature in Georgia are
not selected acco r diug to their choice for Senator.
No such test is made during the canvass. A state
of things might arise that might make the election
of a Senator tbe paramount question, but none
such new exists.
There is no issue now made with Democratic
candidates for the Legislature touching the new
Neuotnjial term. Nevertheless, so far as possible,
there has been an attempt to manufacture a public
opinion averse to the re-election of Senator Iver
son. The Atlanta Intelligeucer, the Federal Union,
aud the Macon Telegraph, have each used its press
and intiutnee to the accomplishment of su< h a
result. and lately the Augusta Constitutionalist has
come to the rescue- a fact which is somewhat signifi •
cant. Now', why this departure from the “beaten
track 7” Why voluntarily throw into the Demo
cratic camp this discordant element ? It is not
without a reason. There is a reason tor it, aud the
public should be fully aware of if. Tbe pretence of
a c&uae is, their preference for Ex-Gov. Johnson,
or some other favorite. Such a course will not
promote Gov Johnson’s success. It is positively
prejudicial to it We do not believe that a gentle
man sanctions such an offensive policy, lie cer
tainly does not stand in need of tuch aid He is
well known to the people as a Democrat, as a
Southern rights Democrat, and moreover, as a man
of first rate ability, and,irreproachable character. —
These things will be well known to any Legislature
that will assemble in Georgia, and that therefore
as a reason for such a course, lacks common plau
sibility.
But we tear the true reason is a very different
one, and if we are rigid in our apprehension, it be
hooves every true friend of tbe South, of whatever
party, to treat the attack as one made upon him
self and his principles. It is a circum- tance worthy
of note, that no fault was found with him until
after his noble speech in the Senate, in which he
spoke the truth feailessly, both a? to friend and foe,
and defended the rights and honor of his section.
What toue hear red Southerner can justly object to the
doctrines of that speech • And if there are those
not prepared to go as far as he went —if they are
true patriots, should they not rather rejoice that our
honor and interests were in hands so strong aud
safe / fan that man b true to his section, who
makes au effort to “nip in the bud” the resistance
to wrong and oppression t Does the cause of the
South or the Uuion require that the true sentiments
of liberty, (even though ill time) should be crushed
as with the keel ot despotism f His enemies have
become somewhat plainer and bolder since his
Griffin speech, imagining (hat in that they discov
ered track ness and boldness they ran use to his
detriment. The mao i feat at ion of such a spirit must
produce the conviction that Judge Iversons as
sailants disagree wiih him upon the wrongs and the
rights of the South
li that is so, let caudor and lair dealing be had.
Let the issue be made up, that the people may say,
whether their rights are safer in the keeping of Al
fred 1 verson thau with those who assail him. It i3
unfair and unmanly, to attack Georgia s faithful
eon, and thereby wound both, that another may oc
cupy his place It that other is as faithful as he,
tfie cause of our country is injured by promotiug
him on such an t.'SU - A Democratic caucus must
settle who shall be U. S. Senator. Is Senator
Iverson to be there made the subject of attack, but
tnstduously, because ot his Southern sentiments?
Is the Democratic party to be used to execute a
hateful decree of ostracism against a faithful mem
ber bec&u-ie of his zeal, or if you please, too much
zeal, iu behalf his native land ? It so, then let it
be written that the Democratic party is false to its
boasted fidelity to the South, and let another party
win and w ear the laurels that ought to be ours. It
is due to Senator Iverson, to his competitors, aud
to the people, that the grounds of this contest shall
be fully known. Whoever opposes him, before the
contest is decided should say iu plain terms, in
what, and how, and wherefore they differ with him.
Then if a majority condemn the Senator, let it be
so —he must bow with respect to the will of tbe
people. The issue is none of his seeking—it has
been forced upon him.
Cot.. Akin at Albany.—The Opposition Candi
date tor Governor addressed a large assemblage of
the people a! Albany, on the —4th ult., and with the
best results. A correspondent has lumUhed ns
with a lull account of the speech, but we have only
room for the conclusion of his article* He says :
“Time would fotbid the review of bis whole
speech, if I were able to do it justice. But the op
position have good cause to be proud of their stan
dard-bearer, and every Georgian wii! be proud of
him when be sees and heats him. The leaders of
the South-saving, Kansas-promising, Cuba-acquir
ing, Raiiroad-projectiug, Platform-constructing,
Treasury plundering, Government-bankrupting.
Democracy will set up a yell But whenever he
meets the people, he will gain their emfideuee and
take votes off of Gov. Brown's 30,000 majority. I
believe if he has health and strength to speak to
the peopte, he will be elected, little as Gov.
Brown's iriends may fear it. When I saw the tears
standing in the eves of some poor old lost and ruin
ed Democrats today, I felt ss though the days of
“Old Tippecanoe ‘ and the log cabin were return
ing, and 1 beiieve they are 1 think; spurious de
m joracy—each as we have now a dsys. with Whig
leaders —under the blows of Akin will be brought
nigh unto death if no: killed, and J seph. next
October, stripped of that j sandy grey russet ] coat
and cast into a pit. Southern Rights.
f Sara ii i.ai Eepu b.
Col. Akim's Speech in Savannah. —The speech
of Col. Akin, at Masonic Hall, last evening, wss
quite an occasion, after ths long dearth of politics
that has reigned in our city. The audience was in
ail respect, a flattering one, the large hail being cue
continuous ‘'sea of upturned taces,” and a more
attentive one we have never seen assembled in our
city. The speech was near two hours in length,
and the interest of bis auditors was manifested in
their patient attention throughout.
Os the merits of the speech we have not time to
give anything of an adequate opinion. A liberal
synopsis will appear in our next issue, and all may
judge of the views presented, for themselves Col.
Akin is. as be says “a plain, biunt man,” but we
may sdd possessed of s strong mind, great clear
ness of perception, and a vigorous style of present
mg his views to a popular audience. We ooubt it
there are many mere effective stump speakers in
the Slate. His criticism of the claims of Governor
Brown was a triumphant exposition of the system
atic haul buggery by which the latter is seeking to
contiune in office and delude the people of them
votes.
But we have neither time nor space tor,a re
view, and would dose this hasty notice with the
opinion that the speech was well received, and will
tell at the ballot box in the veru.ct of the people.
{Republics, of Thursday.
Brought to Terms—tl,e sees many queer
things in their perambulations about town W alk
ing leisurely down a leading avenue this morning,
your correspondent encountered three very ex
preesive notices. The first was a arge placard
covering the whole front door of a dwelling, intorin
ing the passeer by that “this house (a handsome
domicil by the way.) is to be let to colored families
only. ’ This unique announcement attracted quite
a crowd of lookers on and upon enquiry, I was in
formed tnat the late occupant, who had recently
failed, hela a lease U[ on the premises tor a term of
years, and as the owmer had refused to release his
tenant, tbe latter adopted the novel expedient of
advertising the premises as described, by way of
revenge The same dodge was tiled on one m
Bieeker street, in a lashionabie locality some three
yeans ago, and produced ths desired effect.—.V. i
cor. CKarUftOH News,
“Having the Way” lor Douglas.
Some of our Democratic friends thought that we
were not warranted in saying, a week or two ago.
that the Democratic party of the South would enter
into the support of Stephen A. Dougiae for the
Presidency next year. Every day but adds to our
conviction that we were right; and every day but
adds new testimony to the fact that they will do bo.
But a short while ago Demociats declared openly
that tdey would not, but now we hear some of
them compromising by eaying that it is owing to
what sort of a platform he is nominated upon,
while others say that they will vote for him as the
leaser of two evils, should he and William H. Se
ward be the omy contestants. We new venture the
assertion that it Stephen A. Douglas is the nominee
of the Charleston Convention that the National
Democracy of Georgia will give him their cordial
and undivided support. Any other course will be
uo-Democratic and oat of uaige— contrary to ail
precedent.
Already there are several papers in Georgia that
sympathize with Douglas. Ihe Constitutionalirt,
the Federal Union and the Macon Telegraph—the
latter ot which is now publishing a series of arti
cles in defence of Mr. Douglas’ course. It wiil be
remembered that tbee are the leading Democratic
papers of the State of Georgia. If we have mis
represented the papers named we will take pleasure
in making the proper correction when notified of the
fact.
Some of our Democratic friends are very fearful
that it We demand protection of our Slave property
in Territories that the reeult will be of a very
serious character—because, say they, if Congre-s
should essay to render protection to such property
that they will assume the right to intervene for or
against slavery , according to tbe dominant senti
ment of our National Legi-lature. We cannot see
that the qaestion of protect ion should involve the
question of intervention. While it is proper that
we should be protected in our rights in slave prop
erty as in any other property, it does not argue
that (’oogreea baa any right to intervene to exclude
or establish slavery in the Territories. Congress
lias the right we think, to protect the people of a
1 erritory in the right of owning horses, cows,
sheep, & c., and yet it cannot intervene to exclude
any one of these species of property. According to
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case, negroes are held as property, the same
as any other kind of private property , and it is
declared that Congress has the “right, compelled
with the duty’’ to protect the slaveholder in the
enjoyment of his property. Therefore, wherever
the American tlag floats over the public domain the
slaveholder can point to tbe highest law on earth
which guarantee* to him the fullest measure of
protection.
Right here the Southern Democracy and Mr.
Douglas can meet on middle ground and strike
bands as National Democrats. Mr. Douglas stand
ing upon the Cincinnati Platform along with tbe
Democracy, in positive derogation of the Supreme
Court decisions, both can declare for non interven
tion by Congress, while Mr. Douglas claims that
the people ot a Territory may exclude slavery
therefrom by unfriendly legislation. The Territo
rial Legislature being but the agent of Congress,
capable only ot wielding such powers as Congress
has the right to wield itself, we cannot see how De
mocrats can tolerate euch a man as Mr. Douglas
who bolds the doctrine that Squatters have tbe
right to control the laws of a Territory to the detri
ment of the South under tbe disguise of “Popular
Sovereignty,” when Congress, the source of its
power, has no such right.
The Territorial Legislature, being the mere crea
ture of Congress, how can it be argued (as by Mr.
Douglas) that it can exercise unfriendly legislation
towards the institution of slavery, while Congress
cannot intervene to promote the same end ? Can
Congress delegate powers to a Territorial Legisla
ture it cannot exercise itself ? Thus it will be seen
that while Mr. Douglas claims non-intervention by
Congress in the Territories, he admits a right to the
Territories which is equally dangerous to the
South, as Congressional intervention, while he aud
his supporters will not even admit that it is the
duty of Congress to protect Southerners in their
right to hold slave property in the same. While
Democrats may not claim protection in the Territo
ries, because they think it a sort of intervention on
the part of Congress, they are willing to tolerate
Mr Douglas and hug him to their bosoms as a
National Democrat and support him for the Presi
dency.
Because Mr. Douglas demands non intervention
the National Democracy of Georgia will be willing
to support him next year for the Presidency with
out looking into his construction of that part of the
Kansas-Nebra-ka bill which says that it is “the
true intent and ineauiug of” that “ act not to legis
late slavery into any Territory or State, nor to
exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people there
of perfectly free to form aud regulate their domes
tic institutions in their own way, subject only to the
Constitution of tbe United States.” Mr. Douglas
construes the people to mean all who have declared
their intention to become citizens of a territory ;
and these have a right, according to the admission
of Mr. Douglas, to exclude slavery from a Territo
ry by unfriendly legislation.
National Democrats can embrace Mr. Douglas
on the principles of non-intervention, and in the
embrace Mr Douglas conceals the Joab-blade which
is to pierce the hearts of his Southern friends—like
Judas, while he kisses you he betrays you into the
hands of your enemies.
And yet this ia the xnan that the Constitutionalist,
the Federal Union and the Macon lelegraph are
willing to support for the next President of the
United States. Such is the man who is pronounced
by a writet in the Macon Telegraph as a “noble
man—proud and gifted Senator—worthy, interprid,
uctiinching champion of the people’s cause.”
LaUrange Reporter.
From tfie Columbus Enquirer.
Profit** of (he State Kond under Brown.
The Federal Union’s Figures Exposed.— The
fc’ederal Union has a most crafty and sophistical ar
ticle, the design of which is to make it appear that
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, under Gov.
Brown's management, is paying as large a per cent,
to the State as the other railroads of Georgia pay to
their stockholders. The comparison which we have
heretofore instituted exposes this humbug. The
State Road is now enjoying peculiar advantages,
accruing from Gov. Johnson’s application of its
proceeds to a most complete and efficient equipment,
by which Gov. Brown is enabled to divert from
that usual aud ordinary account of expenditure a
considerable sum which he pays into the State
Treasury. It is said that not only in a most liberal
provision of rolling stock, but even in the items of
wood, oil, &c., Johnson left the road so well stock
ed that Brown is enabled to run with unusually
little expense upon his accumulated means and thus
to make a fictitiously favorable showing of the su
periority of his own management. Be that as it
may, one thing is certain—the last report, of the
operations of the State ltoad is most suspiciously
and suggestively silent as to the accumulation or
diminution of these supplies during Brown's ad
ministration. Who doubte that au accumulation
wc uld have been reported ?
But welcome to particular. Tbe Federal Uuion
that the amount paid by the State out of her
Treasury for the construction of the road was only
$1,195,652. Doubtless this is true, but it by no
means follows that this was the full amount paid for
the construction of tiiß road. On the contrary, we
know that it was not the full amount. It Beamings
have been appropriated to construction, and there
are bands out which the State has to pay. This,
therefore, is a very deceptive statement of its cost.
If the same computation was applied to our Girard
aud Mobile Railroad, how manifestly erroneous
would it be as a statement of the total cost of that
road, when we kuow that its earnings have been
applied to its construction !
But the Union assumes that if the road Lad been
built economically, as roads managed by in
dividuals are, its cost would not have exceeded
$3,000,000, and it goes ou to show what per cent,
the road is y ielding ou a capital of thn e millions,
which should hare been its cost! This is a cool
way of setting aside one Democratic wrong aud
extravagance to admit of glorification of subse
quent Democratic management! The simple fact
that a company stood near last winter to purchase
the road from the State for $5,000,000, proves that
it ia instrinsically worth nearly twice as much as
the Union assumes it could Lave been built aud
equipped for.
Iu its comparison oi the rela*ive piotitu of the
Western & Atlantic aud the Central Railroads, the
Union is so very uufair that we ask pardon oi our
readers fi*r taking the trouble to expose its errors.
We would not do so, if we knew that every reader
of its article would investigate the matter for him
self. To prove that the State Road could not have
been built for $3,000,000, it states that the original
cost of the Central Road was only f J,581,723.
After showing what per cent, of profit the State
Road would make this year upon a capital of
$3,000,000, if that had been its cost (making 14 per
cent.,) it institutes a comparison of this conjectural
earning with the earnings of the Central. How ?
By estimating the cost of the Central at only
$2,581,723? Oh no! but upon the basis of its
actual capital of $ 1,000,000. And most egregrious
ly uufair is it in its comparison even, upon this
basis.
It says that the Central Road “paid to its stock
holders only $400,000 (10 per cent, upon $4,000,000,
not on $2,581,723) for the year 1858. But it conceals
the facts that the total net earnings of the Central
Railroad for that year were $755,614. or about 18J
per cent, upon its capital stock of $4,000,000, and
30 per cent, upon its “original'’ $2,581,723 ; and
that besides its $400,000 paid in dividends to the
stockholders, it carried to the reserved fund
$353,000 for that year. Has Gov. Brown any
reserved fund to exhibit or to draw upon hereafter ?
It is rather to be apprehended that a bill of
drawbacks will hereafter nave to be met, when a
parsimonious system of equipment and supplies
will no longer auswer. The total earnings from
the Bank connected with the Central Road were
only $55,889, and about this the Union makes a
blow, as if that sum was any important portion ot
$755,000.
If, argues the Union, we reduce the cost of the
State Road to $3,000,000, then Gov. Brown would
be making 14 per cent, upon that amount. Why
not, then, say that inasmuch as ihe Central Rail
road actually cost only $2,581,000 (according to its
own statement,) President Cuyler ia making 30
per cent, upon that amauut ?—To"make a creditable
showing for Brown, it not only has to undervalue
the cost and worth of the State Road, but it esti
mates that of the Central Road at over one-third
more thau the amount it says it really ocst! Was
ever computation like this heard of betore ? Need
anybody tell us that “figures will not lie ” here
after ?
But, as we have heretofore contended, the true
criterion by which to test the management of a
railroad is to find the proportion of its ordinary ex
penses to its gross income. Judged by this standard
of comparison, the contrast between Cnyler and
Brown is like “Hyperion to a Satyr.’” Let us re
produce this just comparison : “The gross earnings
of the Central Railroad for 1858 were $1.353,?'-!*-!,
audits ordinary expenses $541,126, or about 37 j
per cent, of its gross receipts. In 1857, under
Johnson, tbe State Road's gross receipts were
SOOO,BOB, ordinary expenses $435,827 ; ISoS, under
Brown, gross receipts SBOO,OOO, ordinary expenses
$381,227 —in both years the ordinary expenses be
mg very nearly fifty per cent, of the grossjiocome 1
Here we see that by superior management the
Central Railroad saves twelve and a half per cent,
more of its gross income than the State Road.”
Bearing in mind the fact that President Cuyler is
□ot like Gov. Brown, stocking and equipping his
road with a niggardly hand for the purpose of tem
porary humbug, nor makii g a fictitious report of
,-avings upon the strength of provisions made by a
predecessor, the absurdity of the Union’s compari
son between them will be still more apparent.
Vice Prksidest Breckinridge on the Ex
tension’ cr Si.avert.—Pending tne Preeidemia
election of 1856, Hon John C. Breckinridge ad
dressed tbe citizens of Indiana, at Tippecanoe, at
which time be used the following significant lan
guage :
“The speaker had heard it charged that the fif
teen ei&ve States were conspiring to gain entire
pos-eaeioa of the General Government, with a view
of bringing its power to bear, to extend and perpe
tuate ‘peculiar institutions.’ Gentlemen, there has
been no such attempt. I am connected with no
party that has for its object the extension of slave
ry, nor with any to prevent tbe people of a State or
Territory from deciding the question of its exis
tence or non existence with them for themselves.’
We belong to the Southern Rights Democratic
party, and this party has always been considered
lie f.avery extension party of the South, and if Mr
Bie> kenridge should be the nominee of the Charles
ton Convention, and still adhere to such views, he
can never get our support. Nor can any candidate
tor the Presidency who is opposed to the extension
of slavery We shall never knowingly allign
ourselves with any party opposed to the extension
of slavery, or has not this object in view. To
oppose the extension of slavery|is |to oppose the
admission of more slave Slates, which is the ulti
matum of the Black Republican party.
The doctrine promulgated by Mr. Breckenridge
is but a bere y of Stephen A. Douglas. No true
Southern man can endorse it.— Confederacy.
Tbe Milwaukte News contains ao account of a
sailor who, aitei afire years cruise, returned to that
city. We let the News tell the balance of the
story;
He left a wife and two children when he went
away, and the first thing on his return was to seek
ont his lamily. He found them in the Third Ward,
and after kissing his wife saw with astonishment
that his children, like sheep in the East, had doub
ted in the last five years, as in the p ace of two
there were now four, and one quite small. He
locked at his wife. He then looked at his babies
Then at his wife, who stood si entiy by. Back and
: itb. from one to the oiler, full five minutes he
axed. fi-eu broke out with, “ HU, Alary , for a
smalt seaman, without h-lp, you'tx raised children
amazingly I” I
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BY THE AFRICA.
The steamship Africa, which sailed from Liver- :
pool on the 20th of August, arrived at New York
on Thursday.
Tbe Conference at Zurich appears to be making
no headway. The telegraph announces that the
Austrian and French plenipotentiaries had a con
ference on tbe 16th, and that on the 17th tbe French j
and Sardinian Ambassadors bad a meeting.
It is asserted that toe delay is partly attributable j
to Austria’s sticking in matters of etiquette, espe- ,
daily as regards tbe cession of Lomoardy. The
Austrian plenipotentiaries are represented to have
declined direct conference wi‘h representatives of
Sardinia, who protest against Lombardy being
charged with any por ion of toe Austrian debt.
Tbe latest despatch, dated Zurich, August 18, says
that tbe day previous there wad a conference be
tween tbe plenipotentiaries of France and Austria,
and on the 19th one between France and Sardinia.
It further states that in the next sitting of the con
ference it was supposed that the q lestion of the
boundary of Lombardy and her participation in the
Austrian debt would be eettled
The directors ot the “Great Ship Company” bad
declined Mr. Lever’s offer to charter the Great
Eastern one voyage to America, it is announced
that the ship will leaue the Thames for the Nore on
the 3d of September, and that ehe will proceed
thence to Portland, Dorsetshire, from which place
ehe will make a trial trip on the 8;b to a distance
probably of five cr eix hundred miles. She will
then be prepared to start on or about the 15th of
September on a direct voyage to Portland, Maine,
or perhaps New York. On thiß occasion passen
will be carried at ranging from jLIB to
£25, (all first class ) aud it id said that many appii
cations for bertha had already teen received.
The second mate (John W. Moody) of the Am
erican chip Mary, arrived m tbe Tine, had been
found gudty of Wilful Murder by the coroner’s
jury which investigated tho circumstances attend
ing the death of a seaman named Daniel William
from ill treatment. Moody had been committed
for trial.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed on the I9th
against Mr, John E iward Bulier, of th3 firm of
Smart & Bulier, solicitors, Loudon, who bad ab
sconded with liabilities believed to exceed jC 100,-
000! He ii said to have misappropr ated iarge
sums intrusted to him as a solicitor and trustee.
Mr. Smart, his partner, is in uo way implicated
in tbe chrrgea.
Tue last steamer brought ua news that a general
amnesty for political off'encta had been decreed
in France. This measure was followed on tbe
18th by tbe publication of the annexed in tbe col
umns of the Mouiteur :
“All warning? which have been given to the
newspapers in France and colonies ai? to be con
sidered as non-issued.
“ The Minister of the Interior, iu concert with
hie colleagues, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and Algiers, and the Colonies, has ordered the ne
cessary meaeures to be taken to insure the imme
diate execution of the fall and entire amnesty
granted by the Emperor.
“ Nine hundred and twenty-two soldiers, sen
tenced for various offences, have been pardoned,
or the term of their imprisonment has been com
mined.”
The araueety ie said to have created great eur
prise and given general satisfaction in Paris, and
a hope was entertained that the laws of public
safety would be relaxed, and tbe liability of per
eons to very summary proceedings on mere sus
picion of political oft’euce be doue away with.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says
that the Emperor had ordered two government
steamers to leave immediately tor Algeria and
Guiana,to bring back political transports. The
same writer conjectures the latest news from Italy
had something to do with the proclamation of the
amnesty, and that the impossibility of carrying out
the peace of Viliafranoa iu au Austrian sense, had
made th>* Emperor reflect seriously on the necessi
ty of uuiting ail parties iu France around his stand
ard.
It was generally reported in Paris that a due!
had taken place between Marshals Caurobert and
Neil, and that Canrobert had been killed, but the
silence of the telegraph renders the rumor impro
bable.
The Paris Moniteur contains a decree to the
effect that foreign ehares and securities may be ne
gotiated at the Bourse after two-fifths of their value
has been paid up. Previously it was necessary
that seven-tenths should be paid up.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to have sent or
ders to Marshal Vaillant in Italy not to allow the
troops there to receive ovations from the Italians,
but io maintain a reserved attitude.
The projected fortifications at Autwerp were ex
citing increased attention at Paris. It was expect
ed that as soon as the bill authorizing the works
passed the Belgian Legislature, the Moniteur would
contain a decree for tbe formation of an army of
tbe north, to consist ot sixty thousand men, with
headquarters at Lille.
The Paris Bourse on the 19th was firm, and the
three per cents, closed at 69.15.
General Garibaldi, on requitting the command of
the Chasseurs ot the Alps, intimated the fact in an
order of the d*y.
A journal of Turin states that the army of the
League of Central Italy is to consist of 40,000 men,
under the command, as already stated, of General
Garibaldi. The other generals are Ribotti, Mazza
capo and Pinelli.
The King of Sardinia arrived at Turin on the 17 th,
and was welcomed with great crowds, which had
assembled at the railway station. The National
Guard and the Piedmontese troops were drawn up
in aline along the passage of his Majesty. Gen.
Ulloa had sent in his resignation, which had been
accepted.
The National assembly of Modena had been open
ed by Signor Farina, who deposited the powers
given him as Dictator in the hands of the Deputies,
urging to express freely and calmly their
wishes for the definite settlement ot the constitution
of the country. In addressing himself to Europe he
said : “We are ready to give to the civilized world
al the guaranties of order ard peace, conditionally
that liberty is assured to u-*, and that Italy shall be
restored to the Italians.” The Assembly voted an
address of thanks to the Emperor Napoleon.
The friends of Italy were said to be uneasy at the
presence ot the young Duke of Tuscany in Paris.
The Parma Gazette announces that the Govern
ment of the Duchy had given orders for the pur
chase of four thousand muskets, and invited the offi
cers and men of the Corps of Riflemen of the
Alps, who had been disbanded, to take service
under Parma
fc’rom Austria we learn that Count Leo Thun had
declined to accept tbe Ministry of the Interior. It
was reported that, the Emperor was getting impa
tient at the delay iu the Ducal restorations. The
Minister of the” Interior, Baron Bach, had been
named as Minister to Rome. There waa a report
that an Austrian corps d'armee was to be ooneen
trated near Rovigo, on the road to the Legations and
to Modena.
The official Wiener Zeitung contains a list of
numerous promotions on account of the battle of
Solferino.
Cholera prevailed in Spain, bat it was confined to
the province ot Murcia
The Czar ot Ru aia had presented the Sultan of
Turkey with tbe decoration of the order of St.
Andrew, iu dia i.onds valued at one million pias
ters, in acknowledgment of the reception recently
given to the Grand Duke Constantine.
Amiable relatione are said to have been re-estab
lished between the Austrian and French Ministers
at Constantinople.
Sir li. Bulwer had explained that the reason for
the visit of the British squadron to Alexandria
w r aa to do honor to the contemplated visit of the
Sultan.
The Calcutta mails of July 16th arrived at Aden
on the Bth of August. The King of Oude had
been released. About 5000 of the local European
force in Bengal aud the provinces had taken their
discharges. Only one man of the mutinous sth
Europeans, at Bernampore, remained under arrest.
New duties and stamps on receipts aud bank notes
had been proposed in council.
The Zurich Conference.— The Independence
Beige mentions a rumor now current in Paris to
the effect that Austria declined to discuss with Sar
dinia the cession of Lombardy. It is urged that
Lombardy is ceded to the Emperor Napoleon, aud
not to Sardinia, and that Sardinia has no more
right to interfere ia tho details of the cession than
Austria will have to interfere with the manner of
the Emperor Napoloou’s alter cession of the same
territory to Piedmont.
A Paris letter in the same paper says :
“Some particulars of what took place iu the first
sittings of the Congress have come to me from a
very authentic source. The first sitting presented
nothing of importance ; after an exchange of pow
ers a preliminary conversation on general facts was
opened. It was only at the second one that things
took a more serious turn. When the points agreed
on at Villafranca, whnb stipulate for the return to
the Duchies of their princes were mentioned, the
Sardinian Plenipotentiary declared that it was im
possible for him to adhere to that clause, and that
his instructions enjoined him not to consent to a
proposition which Piedmont could never accept.
An animated discussion then arose, which was sup
ported by Baron de Bourqueney and Count de
Colloredo againet the Sardinian Plenipotentiary,
and it became at length so warm that the last nam
ed representative was obliged to leave. Private
interviews have since taken place, but nothing has
shaken the determination of M. Dasambrois, as his
instructions on the point are precise. The matter
has been referred to Vienna, Turin, aod Paris. It
follows as a matter of course that the Sardinian
Cabinet will maintain the same attitude, uulees the
Emperor Napoleon should weigh so heavily on
King Victor Emanuel as to induce him to yield.
From the Atlanta National American:
Guv. Brown nml the Hanks—His Connivnnre
with certain Bunk Officers to Evade the Lnw,
The Proof in Hand !!!
Our readers all remember the war waged against
the Banks two years ago by Gov. Joseph E. Brown.
They ateo remember that he forced through the
Legislature a very stringent law, requiring the
Bank officers to make oath to unheard of restric
tions in their business. They will further remem
ber that it was charged, a few days ago, by
the “Rome Courier,' 1 that “Gov. Brown, finding
that the Basks were about to kick up such a fuss
as would rain him, actually wrote to some of them
and informed them of a plan by which, they could
crade his taw. And then the plan ot evasion was
the silliest thing ever thought of by mortal man.—
It was this, that the officers should make out their
returns one day ad then do no Banking business
until the next day after they had sworn to their
statement. Now they were to swear they had not
violated the Law,since making their last statement,
and he tells them to regard the statement made the
day before as their last statement, aud thus evade
the letter of the law.”
This charge has not been denied by Gov. Brown,
or any of the papers in his interest. Reason: they
dared not do it! The fact absolutely exists ’
We have in our possession—subject to the in
spection of the public—a copy of this infamous doc
ument It is a very lengthy one—covering four
pages of large packet post. We cannot afford to
give it entire, just now. The letter is written in
reply to one from a Bank officer—a Democrat—
who asked the Governor 8 “ opinion on two points
growing out of the Bank Acts of 1857 and 1853”
The Governer’s answer is “ p'ivate and confiden
tial’—“ not for publication, but for your own sal's
faction as a Director of the Bank of , dfC., with
the privilege to show it to a fete friends.”
Tne Governor says “it is no part of my duty to
construe the laws for the Banks ; it is only my duty
to see that they are executed yet as he is “n ot
responsible” for"the passage of the Act of 1857, he
assures his correspondent that he will not bother
himself about the vioiatiou of tbe law. unless some
“one alleges that the officers have not sworn truiy.
Then the Courts are open for the determination of
that question.” He says further that “as a per
sonal friend however, and not a public officer, I
will give you my opinion on the two points men
tioned in your letter, which is not designed for pub
lication, but which yon are at liberty to show to
such fnenas as are interested, provided you do it
in such manner that the opinion shall not become
the subject of newspaper comment.”
We will give further extracts from this delectible
document hereafter. We have not room to-day for
more. If any one asks how we came in possession
of the letter, we answer, it is none ot hie business I
We have got it—and we daie Gov. Brown and the
“Intelligencer,’ and the “Federal Union ‘ to deny
its genuineness’
Party, sot Cocstrt.— The Democratic papers
deny that Senator Toombs, in his Lexington speech,
declared himself ucqualiaedly tor Douglas tor the
Presidency. Tney interpret his remark that be
would “vote for Donglas sooner than for any man
of the Opposition, North or Sontb,” as simply
meaning tuat he would in no event support any
other than a Democrat. It signifies a great deal
more —it implies that Senator Toombs is willing to
support a Sor Uern FreesoUer for the Presidency,
if he is only cai-ei a Democrat, in preference to a
sound and reliable Southern slaveholder who may
call timself an Opposition man. With him, it is
party only that intiaencee his support, the rights
of his section are to be overlooked if the Democra
tic party calls on him to support Donglas!
Now, suppose an Opposition Congressman from
Georgia should, in close imitation of this remark of
Senator Toombs, declare that he would support
Wm. U. Seward for the Presiaency sooner than any
Democs at, North or South. What a storm of indig
nant bluster would thereby be elicited 1 If the
State were not soon made too hot to hold him, it
would not be because every Democratic bellows in
Georgia was not actively and vigorously at work
to blow np the fire. If the people will ponder on
the contrast, they may therefrom learn a lesson
about the sincerity of Democratic indignation in
each cases,— Columbus Enquirer.
WEEKLY
(%oniclt & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEP. 7,1839.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WARREN AKIN,
OP CASS.
FOR CONGRESS —EIGHTH DISTRICT,
A R WRIGHT,
OF JEFFERSON*.
FOR CONGRESS:
2d Dirt —MARCELLOS DODGLASS, of Randolph.
3d Diat.—THOS. HARDEMAN, Jr., of Bibb.
4lb Dirt —WM. F. WRIGHT, of Coweta.
7th Diet.- JOSHUA HILL, of Morgan.
Bth Dirt.—A. R. WRIGHT, of Jefferson.
COl.. A. R. VI RIOHT’M APPOINTMENTS.
At the earnest solicitation of bis friends, Coi
A. R. W RIGHT baa been induced to change hi 9
list of appointments, so as to meet hie opponent, be
ginning at Elberton on the 2.7 th inet., as follows
Pope Hill, Friday, 9th Sept
Gibson, Saturday, Itith “
Louisville, Tuesday, 13th Sept.;
Bark Camp, Wednesday, 14th Sept.;
Milieu, Thursday. 15th Sept.;
Augusta, Thursday Night, 15th Sept.;
VVaynesbor"', hriday, IGth Sept.
Saw Dust, Saturday, 17th “
Between the 19th and 25th, the 25th and 27th,
the 27th and 30tb, the 3l)th aud Ist September, the
Ist and 3d, the 3d and 6th, I will fill any appoint
ment our frieuds may make forme, that will enable
me to meet the next regular succeeding one. If
they desire extra appointments, they can make
them without consultation with me, and I will till
them when I reach their several counties.
A. R. WRIGHT.
OPPOSITION MASS MEETING.
We are requested to state that a Mass Meeting
of the Opposition Party of Richmond county, will
be held at Concert Hall, on Saturday, the 19th of
September, at 12 o’clock M., for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the Legislature. A full
attendance from all parts of the county is specially
desired.
BOOK BINDING.
Persona who wish Periodicals, Books or Musio
bound, or Blank Books made, at SHORT NO
TICE, can be accommodated by app lying at the
Office of the Cbronicle &. Sentinel.
Col. Akin will address the people at Covingtcn
on Thursday, the BtL day of September, at 11
o'clock A M. All the people are invited to hear
him.
Melancholy Death. —Mrs. Spellman, wife of
Mr. R. P. Spellman, Jr , of this city, died last
Thursday morning, from the effects of strych
nine, administered by her own hand. Mrs. S. has
of late been subject to tits of mental derangement,
caused, it is said, by the loss of her children.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller will address the people at
Newnan, Thursday, September 8 ; at Carrolton,
Saturday, September 10.
Miners Wanted.—Two experienced Miners are
wanted to work in the Wilkes Copper Mines. See
advertisement for address, &c.
Shelby Medical College.— This institution is
located at Nashville, Tenn. Its Faculty is com
posed of gentlemen of eminence in the medical
profession, and the facilities it possesses for imparl
ing a through knowledge of medicine, are such as
to recommend it to the patronage of young men
who design to practice the “healing art.’’ The
second course of Lectures in the College commences
ou Monday, October 3d, the Lecture of the first
month being tree to all students. See Advertise
ment.
Ylr. Jenkins and fir. Wright.
We aro authorized to say that there is not a word
of truth in tbe silly story invented by the federal
Union, and so greedily snapped up by the Consti
tutionalist,concerning Hon. Charles J. Jenkins
and Col. Wright. It is fabricated out of whole
cloth, and is utterly false.
Blgns.
In the olden time, the shepherds, watching their
flocks by night, saw the star in the East, pointing
to Bethelehem. There are signs in the heavens, in
the latter dayo also, but they are all (W) right!
Sranrt from Under!
We learn that both Senator Toombs and Ex-
Gov. Johnson are expected to address the faithful
in this city, during the course of this week.
What’s in the wind ? Are they frightened at
Iverson, or only fiightened for Jones !
Col. Akin at Concert Hall.
Friday last, Col. Warren Akin, the Opposition
candidate for Governor, addressed his fellow citi
zens at Concert Hall. He was introduced to the
audience by our townsman John K. Jackson
Elq., in a few pertinent aud happy remarks.
Col. Akin was laboring under a slight indisposi
tion, from the great fatigue of travel and from
having to speak so frequently, with but little rest.
Col. Akin, while not being particularly an eloquent
speaker, nevertbless impresses his hearers from the
beginning, by the sturdy manliness of his appear,
ance, and by at once forcing the conviction upon
his audience, that he is a plain, straight forward,
honest minded man, of sterling good sense and cool
judgment, and free from all the tricks of the
demagogue. Me is pre eminently a man of the
people. He has made himself what he is, by his
own strong arm, always guided by the strictest
principles of right, lie is au ornament to the
State, and a bright example to the rising genera
tion. Mr. Akin had been out of politics for many
years, the last speech, previous to this canvass,
having been made for the election of Charles
J. Jenkins to the office of Governor of Georgia.
He took oocasion to review, in no very gentle
terms, the administration of Gov. Brown, always
speaking of the Governor,however,most courteously.
He showed conolusively that the boasted Railroad
management of our model Governor was all moon
shine. It summed up this—that Gov. Brown made
less gross and less nett earnings than Gov. John
son, and spent more per cent, of gross earnings to
work the road. He also opposed Gov. Brown's
stupid Bank policy, and his unequal and unjust dis
criminations against vaiious religious orders in his
proposed College scheme. Cel. Akin himself is in
favor of an enlarged aud just educational system
—that will bear equally upon all, and provide for
all in proportion.
lie took occasion to denounce Douglas and the
Kansas bill as a cheat and swindle—Us Northern
construction enforced by its Northern friends,
and was quite humorous upon the fact of the posi -
tion of Brown on the Cincinnati platform, with
the Fox of Kinderhook on’one end and the “Little
Squatter Giant” on the other.
Mr. Akin declared himself for the law, aud
against all who, under the plea of squatter sove
reignty, or any other plea, would deny us protec
tion whenever necessary.
In conclusion, he denounced Gen. Cass’ Le-
Clerc letter, and declared that all naturalized citi
zens should receive the protection of our Govern,
ment from foreigns despots to the sinking of the last
ship and the fall of the last soldier.
He was listened to throughout, with marked at
tention, hequeutly interrupted by rapturous ap
plause, by a crowded and very respectable audi*
ence.
Atmospheric Phenomenon,
A singular phenomenon was witnessed by some
of our citizens who happened to be abroad at the
time, early last Friday morning, between twelve
and four o’clock, similar, in some respects, to the
brilliant display of the Aurora Borealis which was
witnessed on Sunday night, 28th ult., and which we
see noted as far South as Mobile.
The unseasonable hour at which the display of
yesterday morning occurred, prevents our obtain
ing as complete aud accurate a description of the
various changes as we could desire. At times, the
whole heavens seemed covered with a veil of crim
son, from the horizon to the zenith, the greatest
intensity of the light being observable in the East
At other times it appeared of a pure milky white
ness, almost like moonlight, and more brilliant than
that of the fall moon in its greatest splendor, so that
one could see to read ordinary print quite legibly.
In fact, so near like early sunrise was the phenome
non, that some of the marketmen harnesee and their
teams and set out for market, thinking it was day
light. We have beard of several who acknowl
edged to have been completely deceived by the
unusual light. Charleston papers of yesterday
morning mention the same appearance in that
section, aDd it was doubtless generally observed
throughout the oountry. At the telegraph office iu
this city the wires could not be made to operate
successfully Saturday morning until ten o’clock,
although the line was in the moat perfect order,
showing that these beautiful atmospheric phenom
ena are either caused by electricity, or are at least
intimately connected with it.
Nominations.— The Opposition of Thomas ooun
ty have nominated Dr. D, S. Branhon as their
candidate for the Legislature, to run on the com
promise ticket propoeed by the Democratic party
of the county. The Enterprise says that since tbe
nomination, the Democracy have shown signs of
“ crawfishing.”
The Opposition in Berrien have nominated W.
J. Mabry for the Senate, and James Grieein
Jr., for the House of Representatives.
The Opposition in Muscogee have nominated
Hon. Hines Holt for the Senate, and R. L.
Mott for the House.
New Book by an Augusta Clergyman. —We
are indebted to H. D. Norrell for a copy of a
little volume with the following title: “ Willie
Huard. or the influence of one Life, one Thought,
one Act.” The author is Rev. W. J. Hard,
Principal of the Augusta Female Institute. We
have only had leisure to give but a paseing glance
at its pages; bat judging from tbe high commend
ations which the Press elsewhere has bestowed upon
it, and the known ability and eminent piety of the
writer, we fee! confident that the reader, young or
old, will lose nothing by its perusal.
Naval Intelligence. —Until there is some more
authoritive proof of the loss of the United States fri
gate Congress than the vague rumor telegraphed,
no l eliance whatever Bhouid be placed on it. The
Congress is only sixteen days out to-day, and is
bound for Rio de Janeiro to join the Brazil squad
ron as flag-ship. She was surveyed by order of the
Navy Department a few months ago, and was found
to be in excellent condition, and to nesd very little
repairs. She is nearly 2,<JUU tons burden, and car
ries 50 guns.
The Opposition Candidate for ( oppress in tills
District.
It is well known that Mr. Wright did cot seek
the position that he now occupies, but that he oc
cupies it solely at the earnest and persistent solici
tation of those *n the District who were oppoced to
the odious, corrupt and laithiess administration of
James Buchanan, and who desired by their votes
to eipress that opposition
As nearly every member of the Opposition did,
Mr. Wright ardently desired to avoid the necessi
ty of a heated, and perhsps bitter partisan contest,
and, as the unanimous choice of the people of all
parties, to place Mr. Jenkins in Congress, believing
that his distinguished ability, hU eminent public
services, his personal purity of character and life,
and his undoubted patriotism, would command the
entire confidence of ‘.lie District, and, in the event
ot his election, would prove signally advantageous to
the State, to the South, aud to the Union, iu the coun
cils of the nation. Mr. Jrnkins did not desire to
occupy the position: and the Democratic organ in
this city, contemptuously and indignantly spurned
th idea of a union of all parties on Mr. Jenkins,
declaring the intention and ability of tbs National
Democratic party to nominate andclect a candidate
of its own.
Again, Coi. \\ right deferred to the superior
claims of our most excellent and noble-hearted fel
low citizen of Richmond, the lion. Thomas W.
Miller, and the latter declining, the former be
came the unanimous choice of all the delegates
assembled in convention in this city, ou the i!7th of
July last. And he is to-day before the people, a
candidate for Congress, without his own seeking,
the representative of the sentiment of opposition in
this District—opposition decided and undisguised,
to the acts aud deeds of the present Federal Ad
ministration. Such candidacy does not necessarily
involve our State politics, but as the Democrats
think they can make some capital here out of Gov-
Brown lor their slow coach candidate, Mr. Jones,
they have proposed Brown as an issue. As Col.
Wright follows the truth and fears no evil, he is
not frightened at what his opponents think is a
dead fall, and therefore, like a man , as he is, per
fectly independent aud out-spoken, he avows him
sAl opposed to Brown, as the enbodiment of
Iluikananism, as well as opposed to hie imbecile
and blundering, if not corrupt, State administration.
Without a particle of cisguise or concealment, A.
R . W right is the candidate of the people, and he
is in decided opposition to the Ftdeial and State
Administrations. Let Mr. Jones and his friends
make the most of it. Perhaps it might not be veiy
pleasant for Mr. Jones to answer as to his viewß
touching all Gov, Brown’s measures and recoin -
mendatiena. Perhaps he would not like to endorse
all of Gov. Brown’s recommendations, vetoes, the.
Perhaps he may not bo willing to say he approves
any, even one of Brown’s proposed measures of
legislation. We should be very glad to hear Mr.
Jones speak his mind; but recollect, gentlemen,
Joseph E. Brown is a two-edged sword, aud it
will require an expert to manage it.
The Opposition candidate, bos ides not being
afraid or ashamed to avow his principles, is not
unknown io the people of the District. Iu the first
flush of mature manhood, he holds a tront rank at
the bar of his circuit, as a shrew and aud able lawyer,
aud he has few equals, if any superiors- of his ege,
in the State, as a popular orator ou the hustings.—
A man of quick perception, sound judgment, bold,
impulsive in speech and action, he fills the popular
idea of a dashing young Clitichton, and the hearts
of the people are with him. They w’ell remember
that, in the memorable conflict of 1856, when the
most desperate exertions were making everywhere
in the South to elect the choice of the North, the
Federalist of old days, and the South's enemy of all
timts—James Buchanan—in the thickest of the fight,
not only in the District, but throughout the State,
there stood the stalwart form of the young Saul.—
High above all was heard the clarion voice of otrr
Wright, battloing for the truth, battleing for the
right, battleing for his own South, warning the peo
ple everywhere of the calamities that would come
of the election of such a man to the Presidency of
the Republic. Locking back now, his warnings
seem to have been prophecy. The people have not
forgotten, the people will not forget, his gallant
service of that time. They delight to honor such
men, becauee thereby they cover themselves with
honor. All hail, gallant lender ; free aud independ
ent himself, he deserves to be the Representative of
a free and independent constituency.
The Mntionnl Democratic Parly is Praciically
a Freesoil Organization.
We do not mean to Bay that Democrats are all
Freesoilers. Far be it from us. We know that iu
the ranks of that party, are to be found men as
true to Southern rights as can be found anywhere.
We do not design to oharge that Southern Demo
crats are wanting in fealty to their own section, and
to their own rights as equals in the Confederacy.—
But wo do mean to eay, that as a working party,
as a national organization, as a unit in action, the
Democracy is radically, and we fear irretrievably,
Freesoil to the core.
Lut us compare, for a moment, the Republican
and Democratic parties—their positions aDd their
aots. The Republicans declare their intention never
to admit another slave State into the Union. This
is plain and decisive language, and they act up to
it, as was seen upon the question of the admission
of Kansas, with her Leoompton Constitution. The
publicly proclaimed position of the Democracy, us
seen in the platform of 1856, and in the Kansas
bill, of which the platform is a reiteration, is the
right of admission into the Union, “with or without
slavery,” as the people may determine. How square
their acts with their avowed principles ? It is
true, many Northern Democrats voted for the
admission of Kansas—with Green’s amendment—
which was intended to solten them, but not enough
to secure the admission of the State with slavery.—
With a clear majority over all of twenty two in the
House of Representatives, a clear majority over
all of twelve in the Senate, with a pledged Demo
cratic President, with all the patronage and favor
of the government in their hands, the parly igno
miniously truckled to freesoil, and failed to secure
to the South a great vital right. The party abject
ly trailed its proud banner iu the dust, at the bid
ding of Iho North, to save itself; and it even finally
submitted to the dictation of the Douglas wing,
by a yuasi reference back of the Constitution to
the boides of reuegr.des and rebels, who had con
gregated in Kansas for the purpose, and who did
effectually and forever throttle it. It is supiemely
ridiculous to say that six Southern Americans killed
the Leoompton Constitution. If your boasting
South-saving party had proved true, if it had not
basely surrendered to F’reesoil, heaven itself could
not have prevented the admission of Kansas as a
slave Stale.
Moreover, the party pandered to its radical free
Democracy, in the Kansas Dili itself, by giving the
right toeit in judgment on the question of slavery
to the people of the Territories, while a Territory,
according to the northern construction, and it
constituted the tribunal, which was to try our
rights, of a “people” unknown to the constitution
as law givers, of a “people” that we never shall
consult to be made Judges of Southern Rights—of
aliens, not citizens.
Furthermore, while the Republicans demand the
Wilmot Proviso, the Democracy after abaudoning
the claim of the Territories to exclude slavery be
cause the Supreme Court decided they could not
have determined, and is unrelenting in it, so far as
we can see, never to give up the right claimed for
the Territories, by unfriendly or hostile legislation,
to render our rights valueless therein. We say
the party has determined on this course, for the
Douglas wing controls the party, and that such
determination is unalterable in them, we think
must bo evident to every unprejudiced and well
informed person. Not only does this wing insist
upon the popular Territorial light of unfriendly
action, but it commands, under all the pains and
penalties of ex£commauication, that not one jot or
tittle shall be added to, or taken from the Cincin
nati Platform. It is marshalling its hosts, with the
battle cry of “no Congressional protection” againßt
unfriendly legislation. That cry is echoed in our
midst, by Democratic presses and Democratic
candidates. Is it not time to ask, what are we
coming to 1 What becomes of the stereotyped
phrase that the Democracy is the only hope of the
South—that it is the only party which can save us ?
If it had the will, it has not the power to save us.—
If the National Democratic party be the only hope
of the South, then we could not be worse off, were
it scattered to the four winds of heaven. Asa
party, as a unit, it is to all intent and purposes, in
action, a thoroughly freesoil organization.
Factory Burnt.— The cordage factory of Law
rence, Waterbary & Cos., in Brooklyn, N. Y., was
burnt on the 29th ult. The works were making up
an average of 250 bales of Manilla a week, beside
Russia and Kentucky hemp. By this fire 150
men, boys and girls are thrown out of employment
The loss is estimated at from SBO,OOO to SIOO,IIOO,
on whfeh there is an insurance of about $60,000.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.—
The September number of this popular Medical
bi-monthly is promptly on our table, and from an
examination of the table of contents, we find the
usual variety of original, select and editorial matter.
This work should be in the hands of every Southern
Physician—it stands high as a periodical. We have
so frequently brought it to the notice of our readers,
that we only deem it necessary to say that the
present number sustains the high character the
work Las hitherto enjoyed. We, therefore, cordially
commend it to the profession.
It is edited by Professor H. F. and R. Campbell,
M. D , and published in this city by J. Morris, at
$8 per annum, in advance.
The Doiglab Magazine Article. —The Wash
ington correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, in a
letter dated Friday, Aug. 26th, says that Mr
Douglas’ article on Territorial Sovereignty, pub
lished in the September number of Harper's Mag
azine, was freely canvassed upon its reception in
that city, and the inconsistency was pointed out by
his Southern adherents, that he assumes in it as an
undoubted fact, that the judiciary cannot exercise
any control over the slavery question, while in
private conversation he has said again and again
within two months, that those who hold the ultra
pro slavery view in the Territories will always have
the United States Courts to appeal to, and that he
will be the last man to dissent from their decision:
On this point hinges the entire edifice of Mr. Doug
las’ popularity and unpopularity in the Southern
States, and it is, therefore, confidently believed
that this article of his in Harpers’ Magazine must
damage him eeriousiy. _
Iron Bands for Cotton Bales. —The New
York Courier &• Enquirer says : Our attention has
been called to an abuse in the use of sheet iron
bands on cotton bales. Six bands which were
taken from a bale yesterday weighed twenty-seven
pounds—the cords usually employed weigh only
about six pounds. The difference in this case
.mounted on the value of the cotton, to j a j cents
per lb. We do not learn what steps are proposed
to stop this abuse, if it may be so termed, but we
hear that the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
discountenances it
Silence of Mr. Jones, Again.
We think we deserve a vote of thanks from the
Democracy for arousing the Constitutionalist, for
it had almost begun to be no joke that that paper,
after denouncing the National and State Adminis
tration, was not a good Democratic organ. Since
he has waked up, he seems to think the re-election
of Gov. Brows vastly important
Iu reply to the inquiries and iauendoea of the
Chronicle &• Sentinel, in its article of yesterday,
the Constitutionalist denies that it has ever cau
tioned its candidate to silence. Now that may be
true, but the words quoted seemed, to us, to convey
a different meaning. In addition, it denies posi
tively that there was ever any understanding about
Mr. Joses’ silence, or any consultation suggested,
autiepated or held, in regard to its candidate’s posi
tion, on the question of re opening the African
slave trade. We leave that print to reconcile
these declarations, with its first supposition, that
Mr. Jones intended to “act on the idea” of the
“uespeakabie wisdom of silence,” and its subse
quent declaration [bat it should be surprised if Mr.
Jones had not either at Eiberton or Lincointon,
announced his position on the question.
The Constitutionalist goes on to say :
“4th. That we know the policy which Mr. Jones in
tends to pursue in reference to the question of re
opening th#African slave trade, and that any body
else may know it who will question him upon the
subject, provided Mr. Weight can be induced to
break Iris long silence ou this question and let the
people know what his position upon it is!” We wish
every reader to scan that paragraph closely. The
Constitutionalist is very careful not to eay that it
knows the position of its candidate, but simply that
it knows the “ policy he intends to pursue in refer,
ence to ths question.” Was silence the policy to
bs pursued, or what was it ? If Bilence was the
policy, how long was it to be pursued 1 Was it to
be pursued, until W right declared himeelf ? Now>
how came the Constitutionalist to know the policy
of its candidate, and to know that any body else
might know it, (with the provise tiiat Wright de
c ared his position) unless there tens a consultation,
and an understanding ?
The Constitutionalist wishes further to know if
it would net be well for the Chronicle Jj- Sentinel
to make Mr. Wright open his mouth on the ques
tion ? Mr. Wright needs no snaking of ours. —
We haven't him in leading strings. But as a piece
of news, and for the especial benefit of the Consti
tutionalist, we would eay that we have just been
informed, by a reliable gentleman that, iu the dis
cussion between Mosers. Jones and Wright at
Dauburgh, on Monday last, in reply to a question
from some of the audience, Mr. Wright took oc
casion to announce his position as follows:
That while he did not doubt the advantage to
the African of bringing him here, under the light of
civilization and Christianity, he doubted if Bueh
wruldbe good policy for the South, lowering the
price of labor, the price of cotton, &c., ar.d tending
to drive i ut the poor white population, and that lie
was opposed to the policy of re opening the Afiican
slave trade.
Now it's out, can our neighbor sleep quietly ?
Furthermore, our informant states that Mr. Jones,
the mum candidate, first forgot to answer the ques
tion, aud, after his attention was a second time
called to it, he replied that Mr. Wright had not
answered it, and he should not! Is that the policy
to be pursued, and how long is it to be pursued ?
Mr. Wright’s position is now known, and we are
justly entitled to know from the Constitutionalist
the policy, at least, of its candidate. We want to
know something mors, and we Bgain repeat our
questions of the 31st of August: “Does the Con
stitutionalist know the position of its candidate 1
If yea, may anybody else know who will ask ?”
We think the Constitutionalist has rather got
his foot in it, in harping on the “frank and manly
Wright’s” not answering to the question whether
or not he would vote for Gov. Brown.
His informant says Mr. Wright refused to an
swer—our informant says Mr. Jones made a start
as if to ask the question, and stopped to see about
Iris time (he is very particular about his time) and
so did not ask the question. The presumption is
that our informant is correct, because the P. S. to
the Constitutionalist's article, which, by the way,
makes bosh of his preceding half column, states that
at Lincointon, next day, Mr. Wright answered
the question, as everybody, wo thought, knew he
would—that he would not support Gov. Brown.
That Thirty Thousand Majority.
The Southerner, a Democratic paper, published
in Rome, in its iesue of September Ist, takes occa
sion to say, under the head of “Prospects of the
Democracy
The present incumbent will unquestionably be
re elected Governor. By what majority it is im
possible to guess with any precision. If he gets
strictly a party vote, it will give him Borne 10,660
majority, lie will get some votes from the Oppo
sition, which will be counterbalanced by losses
from the Democracy. Ten thousand will, in our
judgment, not be far from the figures he will re
ceive over bia opponent.
Alas! then, for Gov. Brown. That braggart
boast can never be fulfilled, and we fear his Ex
cellency is doomed forever to be dissatisfied. In
his Bti onghold, his friends now only claim for him
16,666 majority, and we much fear that even they
will be dissatisfied. We hear every day of Demo
crats of position and influence declaring openly for
Akin, and notono man of the Opposition, so iar as
we have learned, has yet declared for Brown.—
All the changes, everywhere throughout the State,
are from Brown to Akin. Brown cannot get
10,060 majority, nor anything near it, and if our
friends in the Ist, 2d and 6th Districts will only
have faith, and “shew their faith by their works,”
Warren Akin will be the next Governor of
Georgia.
F'urtlier on, in the Bamo article the Southerner
says:
Between Jones and Wright of the Eighth, from the
conflicting reports we hear, it is impossible to give
an opinion. Mr. Stepsons’ majority two years ago,
was 12,606 or 15,006. But of course, no other man in
that District, except Gov. Johnson, could run it up
so high. Even if Johnson could, and that is very
doubtful, if Mr. Stephens gives his influence to
Jones, there i3 no difficulty about the latter’s
election. Taking it for gramed that Mr. Stephens
will throw in a word for Jones at some of his
dinings, the Eighth will ho represented two years
more by a Democratic member.
Perhaps when the Southerner sees the Constitu
tionalist's article of yesterday morning “blowing
for the boys,” he will feel more easy about the
Eighth. Mr. Stephens may probably desire the
election of Mr. Jone3, for party ‘s sake, notwith
standing that gentleman exerted ail his powers,
such as they were, to oust Mr. Stephens from hi ß
seat in 1853. We learn, however, that Mr. Ste’
phens will take no part in the contest —as nobody
helped him iu liis fights, lie will help nobody. We
commend his course to the prayerful consideration
of his distinguished confrere, Senator Toombs, who,
as it seems to us, is going out of his way, upon the
pretext of attacking Judge Johnson, to help Mr
Jones.
The House of John Fraser & Co.—The
Charleston Mercury of Thursday says :—“The in
telligence conveyed in the following circular, is
sued by the old Carolina firm, though not unexpec.
ted, will be received with pleasure throughout our
community. The high degree of integrity, intelli
gence and liberality that has ever marked the
transactions of the house, have given it a place in
the repect and regard of our people. This singular
embarrassment in which they were recently involved
at New York drew forth a general feeling of sym
pathy, and a desire to sustain them to the utmost
extent showed that ti.e suspension was not a ne
cessity. The announcement of to-day fully justifies
the confidence reposed in them in all quarters. We
trust they now enter upon a course of renewed
prosperity, strong in the gratifying proofs of trust
and favor elicited by this episode in their career,
however disagreeable in itself.”
Charleston, Ist September, 1859.
Dear Sir:—We are pleased to be able to an
nounce tLat the difficulties in which the branch ot
our house in New York lately became involved,
having been overcome, our busiuess will hence
forward be continued as before. Yours respectful
ly, John Fraser &. Cos.
John Fraser &. Cos., Charleston.
Fraser, Trenholm & Cos., Liverpool.
Trenbolm, Brothers &. Cos., New Nork.
Sugar-Cured Hams.—Wo are indebted to
Henry J. Sibley, Grocer, corner of Broad and
Washington street, for a specimen of sugar-cured
hams, of the “Orange Brand,” which we recom
mend as being excellent for table use.
New Cotton. —About twenty of the new
crop of cotton, in all, have been received at Au.
gusta. The color, generally, is good, but the staple
is eomewhat inferior in quality. Buyers are offer
ing about 11J cents, and sales could not be effected
at a higher figure, uniess the quality is better than
the average of that now on the market.
New Book.
From Dawn to Daylight ; or, the Simple Story
of a Western Home. Jfy a Minister’s Wife.—
New York : Derby & Jackson.
The author says in her preface that the maiD
story or narrative in her book is “literally true.”—
We can easily believe it, for there is nothing of
an improbable nature in these pages. It is a plain,
unvarnished tale of the trials, reverses, sorrows,
temptations and triumphs of a pastor and his fami
ly, in the Western country. Those who are at all
conversant with the t xptrifLCes of ministers of the
gospel, more particularly in the rural districts, will
bear testimony to the tiuthfulnes , painful though
it be, of many of the scenes here depicted. Tbe
style is simple, natural, and pervaded by a health
ful moral sentiment, which will make it welcome in
many circles.
For sale by Geo. A. Oates.
Russell's Magazine. —We are in receipt of the
September number of this sterling monthly. Sever
al articles of interest attract our attention, which
we shah take time to read hereafter. In place of a
more extended notice at this time, we give the
table of contents : South Carolina Regiment in
1740; Anatomy of Words; Lines; Epistolary Gos
sipings of Travel, etc.; Eventide; Sonnet; Masan
iello; Actrees in High Life ; Sonnets—Spring, Sum
mer ; Idyls of the King; History of the South Caro
lina College; the Marble Bust; to a Jessamine ; the
Demagogue; Editor’s Table.
The present number closes the volume. Pub
lished at Charleston, S. C., at three dollars a year.
Telegraph to the Pacific. —The magnetic
telegraph has been extended to Atchison, on the
Missouri river, and is still on its way westward.—
From the Pacific eide the work is extending to
Salt Lake city. It will probably not be very long
before the two will be made to unite, and give a
complete telegraphic connection from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
Handbome Floor.— The handsomest dining-room
floor in tbe United States has recently been laid at
the ladies’ ordinary at the American Home. Bos
ton. It is an inlaid mosaic floor, composed of SUOO
pieces of wood of four diffe rent growth e—mahoga
ny, rosewood, black walnut and white oak, artisti
cally arranged in magnificent figures.
The (tubernntoi-lal Question.
It is frequently asked, why should Joseph E.
Brown be re elected to the office of Governor of I
Georgia 1 It is a very pertinent question. Why,
indeed ? The seemingly all sufficient answer is,
“Because be is a Democrat.” Withthe Opposition
this is no answer at all, and with the vast majority
of Dsmocrata, we think, it will not be a sufficient
answer to secure his eleotion. Men are growing
less and less wedded to party every day, as they
see and feel the utter insufficiency ot mere party to
answer the beneficent ends for which our Govern
ment was created. Parties are well enough in their
way, we dare say, but the simple fact of beiug a
party man is not sufficient reason of itself, to justify
any man's aspirations for office.
But why else should Gov. Brown be re-slected ?
By some it is supposed that the Governor's pro
posed Bank policy did, and still does, endear him
to large numbers of people. But time proves all
things—the Legislature, including the strongest,
ablest, and best men of the Democratic party,
overruled the Governor's one-man power, and
prevented him carrying out his Bank policy. We
do not, therefore, know how that policy would
actually have resulted. We are left solely to con
jecture, and in the wide sea of doubt every one is
entitled to his own opinion. Let that be what it
may, it is only our opinion. But we do know that
all the dire calamities, ail the dreadful consequences,
which the Goveruor propbecied were to cover the
land like a deluge, tlowing from the passage of the
Bank bill which he vetoed, have not come to pass.
The Banks resumed specie payment at an early
day, prices were well maintained, ships went and
came, railroads paid dividends, merchants made
profits, commerce pursued her accustomed course,
planters aud farmers were satisfied, negroes, stand
ing to us like the Stock board to Wall Street, kept
going up, up, up. In short, the country teat not
ruined. Was the Governor stupid, or was he ma
lignant, or was he both ? If we followed the rule
of the good old limes, when there were false
prophets, Joseph E. Brown, instead of being a
candidate for re election to the pruud office of
Governor of Georgia, should be taken without the
city aud stoned to death. But we hope, and be
lieve, a little less disagreeable fate awaits his
Excellency. The most intolerant aud bitter auti
liank man must now bo convinced that Bank sus
pension is not the most terrible evil that can befal
a country ; that it is not such a gory monster after
all. Do then his Bank views eutitle him to sup
port ? \ou cannot tell, I'iiend, what might have
been the fruits of his policy, if carried out, but yon
know that his prophecies failed.
But again, doeßGov. Brown s sub-Treasury
policy, his hard mousy policy, proposing to compel
the people to pay their taxes iu gold and silver, to
pay the office holders their salaries in gold ana
silver, and to leave all the balance of the people to
tho teuder mercies of Bank rags, meet the appro
bation of the voters ot Georgia? If so, it signally
failed to meet the approbation of their servants in
the Legislature. TUe Opposition urged the Go
vernor’s friends to try it in the Senate, and we
believe it received the support of about one-fifth
of that body.
Does Gov. Brown’s proprosed College scheme
entitle him to re election 7 That plan proposed to
issue bends to the amount of $166,600, s'.'oo 000 for
State University, $56,(160 lor the Military Insti'.ute,
and $56,666 each for the three denominational
Colleges—the Baptist College at Peuffeld, the
Methodist College at Oxford, and the Presbyteriau
College at Midway. Ths annual interest on these
bonds, at 7 per cent., was to be paid to these Col
leges as above mentioned, and they were to edu
cate and board so many young men, at S2OO a year
each—but the income they were to have in any
event, no matter whether the young meu attended
or not. >
That plan tailed in a Legislature overwhelmingly
Democratic iu both blanches—shall not its author
as signally fail at the polls ? Does the dictatorial
aud tyrannical exercise of the veto power, over the
heads of his own friends iu the Legislature, so fre
quently exercised, extort the admiration of the
people? Does Gov. Brown’s endorsement and
approval of the administration of James Buchanan,
his endorsement of the Cincinnati Platform, of
Squatter Sovereignty, of Douglas aud his territo
rial policy, of all the sins and omissions and short
comings of the Democratic party entitle him to
re-election to the office he has disgraced? No, no
What then 7 All else failing, we are defiantly
pointed to tho pre-eminent administrative capacity
of Gov. Bnown, as exhibited in his management of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Let us examine
into this matter, and see what his boasted manage
ment i3. Gov. Brown himself has told us officially
that, in his opinion, the W. it A. Railroad ought to
be the best paying road in the State, estimating it
to be worth six millions of dollars, and it has cost
fully thut, and is worth—would probably soli for
that. And then, to show what he means by “best
paying,” he proposes to lease the Road himself for
$3(16,666 per annum, just live per cent, on its value.
But the Legislature declined to entertain this most
magnanimous proposition of our model Governor.
The Governor then goes to work, takes possession
of the Road, all in good order, just ready to make
money, construction account all closed, according
to the Report of Superintendent Spullock, equip
ment perfect in every respect. During Governor
Johnson’s term the gross earnings increased at tho
rate of $166,666 per annum, and the last year
amounted to (some $966,006. (We speak in round
numbers, not having the reports at hand, for refer
ence.) Well, the very first year of Gov. Brown’s
IrcrAudous mansgement the gross reoeipta fell off
$166,660, instead of increasing $166,666, as they
had done under Johnson — bo that the gross earn
iDgs under Gov. Brown were really 266,000 less
than they ought to have been. But this is not all
Not only were the gross earnings less, but the
net earnings were also less, using more lor
working the Road, thus presenting the singular
anomaly, in Railroad management, of requir
ing more money to do less work! Perfectly
astonishing, is it not ? Taking the largest
monthly amount ever reported as paid into the
Treasury under Gov. Brown, ($40,600, and tha 1
paid iu too in,the summer months, when other roads
are making their smallest earnings—but then it is
near election time,) as the average for the year,
(and it never has averaged any thing near it,) and
our great Rail Road, without any reserve fund,
construction account closed, rolling stock wearing
out, no wood, ties, &0., on hand, would make 8 per
cent, on the-coat of the Road. He never haß made
that much, with all the advantages of the Road,
though Gov. Brown says it ought to be tho best
paying Road in the State. While other Roads are
declaring 8 to JO per cent, dividends, besides a large
surplus reserve luud, amounting in some cases to
nearly 20 per cent, keeping their Roads aud Stock
in excellent order, this grc-adßoad, under the great
Railroader, a main line, without competition, with
feeders at both ends, is not able to pay 8 per cent !
Surely this is extraordinary management ! Gov.
Brown ought to be the “ Rail Road King I” We
challenge any man or any press in the Slate to de
ny the truth of a single assertion of ours, regarding
Gov. Bnown’s Rail Read policy. But, “he is
Democrat”—that is the best reason, but, really, is
that a sufficient reason, of itself, why Gov. Brown
should be re-elected Goveruor of Georgia ?
Os Warren Aikin we shall take occasion to
Bpeak hereafter.
$40,000 for August.
We understand that $40,000 net earnings of the
State Road for August have been received at tbe
Treasury; more had management. Hurrah for
Dr. Lrwis.
We clip the above from the Federal Union. We
certainly expected an announcement of $50,000 or
SOO,OOO paid into the Treasury from the net earn
ings of the State Road for August, aud perhaps
even as much as SIOO,OOO, for September. But,
will our Mdledgeville friend tell us bow come the
net earnings of the Road for August to be in the
Treasury two or three days before the close of
August ?
Does the fiscal month close ou the 25th, or ou
what day ? Don’t get ahead of the wagon.
That Brag. —A prominent Democrat and
Brown man, of middle Georgia, gave us, as bis
opinion, a few days ago, that Gov. Brown’s disgust
ing brag before the late Democratic Convention,
that he would beat the strongest man of the Oppo
sition thirty thousand votes, and that bis platlorm
was “thirty six thousand dollars a month,’’ had lost
him at least ten thousand votes in the Slate. We
have no donbt of its truth, and the fact is creditable
to the Democratic party. It would be still more
creditable did such gasconades and bully ism lose
him the vote of every Democrat in our borders.
[Savannah Republican.
Perhaps Joey B. has lowered bis figures since the
nomination of Col. Akin, mu Hon. Augustus R.
Wright declines being a candidate in the sth Dis
trict, for the sole reason that he learns Gov. Brown
thinks such candidacy would damage his prospects.
Can’t you really be eatiified wiih less thaD thirty
thousand majority, Governor I
Mr. Jones in Wilkes. —A correspondent of
the Wilkes Republican, of Friday, speaks of Mr.
J. J. Jones, the Democratic candidate lor Congress,
berng in Washington, and says :
The “standard bearer” was in Washington on
Tuesday, whither he came to get Mr. Toombs to
write a speech for him to deliver here on Tuesday
next. Mr. Toombs is a good orator, and an able
roan ; but we think his speech, in the present in
stance, will lose much of its effect, consequent on
Mr. Jone-’ delivery. We advise every one to be
in town next Tuesday, and they will hear a bona
fide speech from Mr. Wright, our future member of
Congress, and a second hand speech from Mr. Jones
our future 0000000.
A Presidential Dictum.— Mr. John T. John
son, lately a Custom House officer in Alexandria -
publishes a card in the Gazette of that city expla
natory of the cause of his removal from office. It
appears that he voted for Mr. Shackleford for Con
gress instead of Gov. Smith. And, although Mr.
Shackleford was a Democrat, yet the Governor
was considered the regular party candidate, and
therefore Mr. Johnston was ousted from his office.
It appears that he called to see the President in re
gard to his removal. Here is his own account of the
interview :
“ The President informed us that persons who
hold office under the Administration would be ex
pected to support tbe re election of members of
Coßgress who were friendly to his Administration,
regardless of their antecedents. Opposition to such
a candidate, he regarded as just cause for removal.”
A Chain of Cities. —The chain of cities ex
tending along our Atlantic seaboard, it is expected
will show a great increase in the censna to be taken
sex t year. The population at the last census in
1850, was :
Bangor 14,000; Portland 20,000, Portsmouth,
N. 11., 10,000; Boston 187,000 ; Providenoe 42,000;
New Haven 20,000; Brooklyn 128,000 ; New York
515,000 ; Newark 88,000 ; Philadelphia 409,000 ;
Wilmington, Del., 14,000 ; Baltimore 169,000 ;
Washington 50,000 ; Alexandria 8,800 ; Richmond
27,570; Petersburg 14,010; Norfolk 20,700; Wil
mington, N C, 8 000; Charleston 43, 000; Savan
nah 16,000 ; Mobile 20,000 ; New Orleans 150,000 ;
Galveston 4,200.
Postal “Statements.”— The Postoffice Depart
ment has been ad vised that ealee of Poetoffio s state
ments have been made ip Louisiana at a discount
of eight per cent.
Vhat Clnims bus Joseph E. 111-own upon llie
reople of ueorgtn, for Ke-Elertion?
He has beeD nominated by ths National Ilf mo
iratio Party, as a strictly party candidate, and ha
s one of the most uurcientiug, bitter, and malig
rant partisans in the State. But do these constitute
lufficient claims upon the people, to warrant him
ind his friends in expecting, so confidently as they
s to do, the papular endorsement 1 He stands
before his fellow citizens, by his own choice, and
by the deliberate action of the convention which
put him in nomination, as the embodiment of Bu
zhananism, as an endorser and supporter, an alder
and abetter, of that national organization, which
now holds control of the Government, which was
placed in power by a oonfiding people in a time of
great excitement, produced by a real or supposed
impending peril, which has palpably violated the
pledges ou which it was successful, destroyed popu
lar confidence, and now stands bleeding even iu
the house of its friends. Yee, Gov. Brown is the
embodiment, in this State, of that decrepit organi
zation, to which we are pointed as tho ouly ark of
sa ety—that Babylonish woman, which has ffauted
its scarlet in every conceivable way to catch votes
—which has “crept by flattery to the seat of pew
er,” aud strewed .to pattiway with the wreck! of
many an unfulfilled promise.
But the mandate has goue forth—you must still
support the party, however much you uiav detest
its acts, aud the only way to support the party m
vote for its nominees. Verily, but it remains tr be
seen whether the people .can be cajoled or hood
winked, or driven to support a party, wbioh has
proved faithless and incapable, solely because it id
the party, aud because they helped to put it iu
office. Indeed, those who help to put a party in
power ought to feel more strongly bound, than
others, to denonnoe it and abandon it, when they
see it has proved false aud wicked. It i not only
every man's duty to do right, but to undo his pre
vious misdeeds, if possible, or at li-a.it, to show
“godly soirow” therefor.
Again, Gov. Brown stands on the Cincinnati
Platform. Wonderful ’ There are so many on that
concern these days, that it is really difficult to say,
who does not stand ou It, under it, or somewhere
about it. It seems to be a second Aaron's rod.
Whosoever shall look upon it—to stand on it—shall
be made whole. Certain it is, that some of the
vilest and most treacherous enemies of the South
stand Upon that deleotab'e “Castle in the air.” It
were idle to say that Southern Democrats stand on
the Piutform as they understand it, because North
ern Democrats understand it differently, as every
body will admit,—with this advantage, that they
have the power, and use it, to enforce their under
standing. Say, Southern Democrats understat’d
the Kansas Bill and tue Platform mean non-inter
vention by Congress, the right of tlis people to go to
the Teiritories with any hind ot property, the right
to use and enjoy the same while theie, free from
obstruction, iuipodiineut or hostile legislation, aud
the right to admission as a State, with or without
slavery, as the people may desire. All very well.
But when the time for action oomee, your Northern
allies—a sufficient number to control the part)'—
deny the right of admission with slavery, as the
people desire : and deny the light of Congressional
protection, to slave property against hosl i’e Territo
rial Legislation, standing on the Platform ami the
Bill, as Ihey understand them, able and determined
to enforce their own construction. What then ?
Southern Democrats arqui esce, to save the party
from dismemberment ; aud then what avail to you
Georgians! the Kausus Bill, thej Cincinnati Plat
form or your Southern Democratic construction of
either? Out upon such wlckeduess 1 Is any voter so
preposterously blind as not to see, that standing ou
tho Platform is no claim upon him to support Go..
Brown, or any ether such candidate ?
Finally, what are Gov. Brown s claims as re.
gardß his State Policy !
We believe be could not command his party
sugport, fur a single measure hr proposed. His
action and views in regard to the Bank bill, wliioit
passed over his veto, created for him a eort of
mushroom popularity, which secured his nomina
tion. But how many of his parly approved that
course in the Legislature ? How many from the
Bth District ? We betieve not one. It is now
charged, by those who promise to prove the charge,
if denied, that he played double in the Bank busi
ness, and if that be true, his auti-bank friends, as
well as all others who have any respect for the office
he fills, ought to drop him. His boasted Railroad
management is an exploded bubble. From the
reports of the Superintendents theineeivos, it ap
pears that, not only have the gross earnings ot the
Road beou leBS under Brown than under Johnson,
but the nett earnings have been over $7,066 per
month lees under the former than under ths latter.
Gov. Brown has consumed nearly 56 percent of
the gross earniugß iu ths working expenses pro
per, of the Road, while Gov. Johnson only con
sumed Borne 43 or 41 percent. And this is Gov.
Brown’s Railroad skill! It is true, Gov. Brown
pa) s the nett earnings into the Treasury—sfter
that we know not where the money goes—while Go. - •
Johnson usod the same m equipment and construc
tion of the Road. That's tjie difference between
Johnson and Brown's management. Knock the
liauk and State Road props from unler Gov.
Brown, and he presents the ridiculous spectacle of
a man attempting to hold himself out at arm's
length. Alas, poor Joe. “Rough and tough”—is 1m
of the Bagstock breed ?
Hon. Alkred Iverson.— We find the following
in the Washington letter of the Montgomery Ad
vertiser, of yesterday, in relation to this gentle
man :
“It is said that the seat of the Urn. frieml of
Southern rights from Georgia, the Hon. Alfred
Iverson, will be contested before the Legislature by
by one who now holds a high position in the A 4
midistration. We cannot believe that Georgia
would be benefitted iu the change. In the Sena’o
of the last Congress, no one stood up more boldly
for the claims ol his section than Allred Iverson,
and if Georgia should now show her la-.k of appre ’
ciation by giving his place to another, we shall
really begin to believe iu the ingratitude of Repub
lice. Let him bo returned, and Georgia and the
South will always know where to find him.”
Wharfage Rates in Charleston.— The Char
leston Courier says: We have rtoelevsd from
Walker, Evans & Cos., 3 Uroa l street, a large
card sheet, containing “Rates of Wheilags, landing
or shipping, Storage, Layage, Weighing and Dock
age, established by the wharf-holders at C nr ns
ton, to go into effect on the Ist Septembsr, 1859.”
We shall have something to say concerning these
rates on further examination aud information. For
the present, we need only say that the appearanoe
of such a “ revised ” and increased list of rates at
this stage, is, to say the least, extraordinary. Were
the merchants as einboiied in the Ch-imber o f
Commerce, invited to conference and consultation
in good faith, or were they only invited to ratify an t
submit to what had beeu adopted hy a foreign con
elusion ?
We shall be obliged to any one who can give an
authorative answer to this question, which certainly
d~ mantis a reply.
We annex a few figures of comparison between
the new and the old rales of storage
Cotton. Old. New.
Bale for the first and last week 8 16
Every other week 1 (1.,
Ihe same figures apply to tierces or haif tierces
of Rice, &c.
Eclectic Magazine.— We are indebted tojGEo
A. Oates for a copy of the September number of
the Eclectic. It has two splendid illustrations—a
portriat of the late Alexander Von Humboldt,
and Mart, Queen of Boots, on the eveuing preced
iug her execution.” The couteuts are varied and
interesting, as usual. Anew volume comiDßnneg
with this number, affording a good time to sub
scribe. Published hy W. 11. Bidwkll, New York,
at $5 per annum.
The Illustrated Pilgrim Almanac, for
IB6o. —This is one of the most beautiful specimens
in the Almanac line that we have ever seen . and
when we say that it has “originated as an auxiliary
in the construction of ths National Monument to
the Forefathers, at Plymouth, Mass.,” we have said
enough to ensure the enterprise the hearty support
of every true patriot. It is the design of ths Pub
lieher to iesue this Almanac from year to year, and
using the proceeds in aid of the Monument Fand.
as above stated. It is elegantly illustrated, and the
letter press, much of it referring to the Pilgrims and
the early history of the Plymouth colony, although
familiar to many readers, will be valuable for pro
servation in this attractive dress. The design for
the National Monument to the F’orefatbers, prepai ed
by Mr. Billings, is furnished, followed by a etate
ment of the aims and present condition of the Pit ■
grim Society, a list of officers, &c.
The “Illustrated Pilgrim Almanac” is published
by A. Williams Cos., Boston, and is sold at 2i
cents per copy.
Blondin Crosses the Niagara River with
a Cook Stove, and Cooks an Omelet. —Blondin
on Wednesday, crossed the Niagara river on his
rope, personating a slave, with inanacleH, and sub
sequently with a cook stove, with which, over the
middle of the river, he cooked an omelet, which he
lowered to the steamer Maid of the Mist. The
Buffalo Express, after stating that he first crossed
in manacles, a collar about his neck, a chain pen
dant to his arms, and two others from bis wrists to
his ankles, then states that he next performed most
of the feate previously exhibited—standing upon
his head, hanging beneath the rope, swinging his
body under it, backward, sustained by the arms
with the elbows bent, &c. The Express next de
scribes the stove feat, as follows :
After a stay of fifteen or twenty minutes upou
the Canadian shore, he started back with a cook
stove swung upon bis back, the culinary appurte
nances thereto consisting of saucepans, ladle, sun
dry dishi sand a pair of beilov s, securely fastened
upon the stove. The stove was a goodly sized,
properly-fashioned oooking stove, made ot Russia
sheet iron, and boasting of a smoking-pipe about
two feet in height. Arrived at the centre of the
rope, Blondin secured his pole and prooeeded with
nonchalance to make preparations fur “camping.”
Unslinging his stove he placed it upon the rope be
fore him, sat down, and with some pitchy, combus
tible material built his fire, exciting it wi b the bei
lows, and soon raising a smoke, which proved the
genuineness of the preparations for oooking. When
a proper degree of beat had been attained he pro
duced his eggs, broke them into his dish and threw
the shells into the river. Tbe omelet was prepared
with all the ekill of a chef de cuisine, and when it
was complete he lowered it to tbe deck of the Maid
of the Mist, where, we doubt not, it was divided
into the smallest posaible shares, and eagerly
treasured by the passengers. Gathering up his
“hotel,” Blondin re-adjusted it upon his back, and
quickly landed himself and it upon the American
shore, amid tbe loud cheers of the throng.
N. O. Picayune.— We have not received a
number of this valuable exchange for ton days past
The other New Orleans papers come to hand as
usual—most Irregularly. Will our friends of the
Pic. look into the matter I—Savannah Republican.
We have the same complaint aud the same re
queattomake of the Picayune. —[En . Chron.
Religion in the Sandwich Islands.— lnformal
tion, derived from the Missionary House, in Boston
is contradictory to the statements published in tha
New York Independent to the effeot that the Sand
wich Islanders were backsliding into barbarism on
the contrary, it is asserted that the churches are in
good condition and civilization rapidly progressing.