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THJ TIMES.
COLUMBUS, GA.
Wednesday, October Id, 1845.
A Wo6|> ABOUT THE “TIMES.”
A friend has called our attention to the
phraseology of our notice of the result of the
election in this county, and while he fully ad
mits that we were wholly innocent of the de
sign, thinks that it might beconstrued abroad (
into a slur upon our ticket. Certainly, noth
ing was further from our v purpose than to re
flect upon the personal material of the ticket
We rank two of its memheis among our
personal friends, aud regard them as the truest
Democrats. We only miant tosay,that the
ticket as a whole was not strong, because,
Mr. Bethuue, one of the most popular men
on our side, was absent during the whole can
vass, being taken up and run, while he was
away in the pursuit of liealth ; and Mr. John
son, everybody as well as himself knew, ran
the race, without a shadow of a hope of suc
cess. Gen. Jackson, himself, were be alive,
could not have been elected by the Democrats
in this District. Every one is aware of the
disadvantage ofa contest in which victory is
impossible. Voters wilHrelukewarm in such
a case, and there is besides, a well-known
disposition in many voters to support the
winning cause. Under these circumstances,
although, Mr. Johnson did his duty, Mr- J
Guerry had to bear the whole brunt of the !
hopeful contest. That he did not succeed is
not surprising. We never believed ior a
moment that he could succeed.
There are other persons, who seem to make
it their business to watch ail our movements,
aud hyper-criticise all our expressions, and
who tancy that they have discovered that we I
were indifferent to the result. It is very
true that we had but little to do in the forma, j
tion of the ticket. We purposely abstained !
from it, because we had previously been abused ’
like pickpockets by certain persons, who are j
extremely hard to please, for taking 100 much
interest aud being desirous to dictate and
play the leader. We were aware that what j
ever we did for the good of the party or against:
it, would he fuuudlault with and opposed just l
because, toe proposed it. The whole plan of or-1
gauizilton in this congressional dis'rict, as re- [
commended by the Ctntral Committee raised
by the Democratic convention was opposed
for the highly satisfactory reason that our
“Senior” was honored by being put on that
Committee; and a few weeks before the elec- .
tion, we were solemnly “warned to let well |
alone” and not attempt to carry out the plan 1
of organization. Well, we acted upon the,
advice, not because we entertained the least;
respect for the quarter from which it came
but because we saw proper; and we are now
upbraided for following that adv ce and accus
ed of indifference.
We6uspect, that we shall never please
these very reasonable individuals until we
shut up the “Times” office and abandon the
field to certain ambitious spitits who aspire
to occsipy our places. Wnenever the Demo
cratic party expresses itself dissatisfied with
our method of sustaining its principles, we
shall throw down the pen and plat e this press
at its disposal, it lias been our aim to main
tain the character of our press for justice,
moderation and dignity, as the best policy for
Democratic interests, and as the only one, con
sonant with our feelings. If the party wants
a more supple aud slashing editor, one who
will turn aside from the pursuit of truth and
the advocacy of principles, to do its “dirty
work,” why they must get another editor, and
there are those ready to lake that place. We
repeat, we are ready to get out of the way,
and we can do it at any moment—for the
“Times” has become more valuable in out
hands, and we can retire at a moments warn
ing, without pecuniary loss. But, if, on the
other hand, our political friends are satisfied
with a press, which at least honestly seeks
to be respectable, they will continue to give
us that encouragement and support, which we
have always had, gratefully to acknowledge,
from the first moment of our connection with
it.
One more remark—public complaint has
been ma<le against our ••Senior” that he did
not go to the polls on the day of the election.
It is known to those who put this complaint
forth and to others who circulate it, that our
“Senior” accomplished just as much for our
ticket as if he had gone to the polls—he
neutralized one whig vote. The truth was,
that our “Senior” staid away from the polls
for the following good reason. After finish
ing his mornings occupation in his office, he
went out for the purpose of going to the
Court House. Walking a few hundred yards
lie became suddenly, unwell, &. finding that ho
should be obliged to go borne, and might nut
get out again, agreed with a Whig whom he
met ou the way to “pair ofT’with him. He
went home, and was obliged to stay there
until the polls were closed.
It is really anew thing for the writer of I
this article to be put on the stand and cate- !
closed about his democracy. A man who !
never drew a Whig breath in his life—who |
never voted a split ticket, or anything but a!
full Democratic one—who in a not very long j
life, has devoted more than one half of the
years of bis manhood, to laburmg editorially I
in the Democratic cause, and who (we state 1
it as a fact and not as a buasi.) has probably i
suflcred more pecuniary loss and hardship I
and run more personal risks, by his cornier.- j
tion with Deu.ocralic politics, than almost [
any other man of his age—this man is now I
charged (and by whom!) with being anindifl
erent sort of a Democrat! Judge us by our
acts, and not by the light of sordid envy and
jealous malignity !
Thk F.lection Laws of Georgia, re
quire levision, and wo trust that some pub
lic spiiitcd member of the Legislature, will
bring the subject before that body with a
view to affect—lst, The election of mem
bers of Congiess and the Legislature on the
same day and year, instead of in alternate
years, and—2d, To compel every man to
vote in his proper militia district.
The first provision will save us the excite
ment and coriuplion of one election in eve
ry two years, and the second will prevent
a vast dual ol fraudulent and double voiing.
The Hon. Theodore Frehogbuyseu is se
yjonsly indisposed.
GEORGIA ELECTION.
We pr olish a table of the vote of Geor
gia, for Governor, Senatois and Represen
tatives, as far as received at We
shall reserve our speculations upon the re
sult, until we can survey the whole ground.
The probabilities are,in the meantime, that
Gov, Crawford's majority will be about
1,300, the Whigs will have the House and
the Democrats the Senate, by a meagre
majority.
Georgia lias certainly, established her
character for “jumping Jim Crow,”
We annex a table of her pirouettes in the
past 8 years.
Tn 1845, Whig. I In 1841 Dent.
“ 1844, Pern. “ 1840, Whig.
u Whig. I *• 183D, Dent.
“ 1842, Deal. j “ 1838, Whig.
The Ins aud Outs have been equally di
vided to both parties, and almost as regular
as in a game of Cricket.
Maine Election. — Anderson's majority
lor Governor will be 2000. The Senate
will tand 23 Democrats to 3 Whigs. As
far as returned 59 Democrats and 37 Whigs
are elected to the House; and a great majori
ty of the 53 districts and towns yet to chooffe
aro Democratic.
Well done Maine!
THE GREAT MAIL.
We understand that the Post Office Dc
i parttnent has determined to remove the
j great Eastern and Southern Mail, from its
present route through Columbus, to the up
j per toad, running from Atalanta the tertrii
[ nus of the Georgia Rail-Road, through La-
I Grange and West Point, to Cheltaw. Tbe
distributing office for Alabama, Mississippi,
Ac., will be transfer red from Columbus to
Montgomery, and Columbus will be sup
pled with its Eastern Mail in Hacks from
LaGrange.
Ibis change lias been in contemplation
for a year past, and has at last been accom
plished by the superior enterprise, energy
and perseverance, of the people in the Eas
tern paitof the State, connected in interest
| with iheGeorgiaßai! Road. In the interim,
Columbus has been in a Rip Van Winkle
slumber, and has not lifted a finger to coun
teract a movement by which her conse
quence and interests were to he affected.
[Now, that it is done, it makes quite a stir,
[and indolent inactivity is very sorely put out
at a result, which it did not movea peg to
prevent.
THE CORPORATION ANO THE TRADE
OF COLUMBUS.
| We regret to learn that the City Council
of Columbus have passed an ordinance to
1 take away the freedom of the Br idge across
lire Chattahoochee, from foot passengers.
In our humble judgement this measure is
the very “foolishness of wisdom.” It is a
clog upon the trade of the City imposed by
lire Falheis of the City, whose duty it is to
foster it, and open toil, every possible avenue
of business and prosperity. It is unwise in
an economical point of view,—for like all
restrictions of the right and facilities to free
trade, it will cost the community in the loss
ol iis business, three dollars for everyone
of toll that the city will collect in tbrips.
The Merchants and property-holders, had
a great deal better conte forward and pay
into the City Treasury, the sum which
it will realize by this absurd tariff,
and thus purchase a free passage sot the
customers of the Cuy Trade, who live be
yond the bridge.
We had hoped, that instead of adding to
the fetters ofthe City Trade, that improved
enlightenment in our Rulers, would have
exhibited to them the wisdom of removing
some of those already existing. If possible,
the bridge ought to be entirely ftee, or at
least, wilh a toll, sufficient to pay the ex
penses of repairs, ts-c. The city govern
ment would lose several thousand dollars
of revenue—but the city itself, its business,
its ptosperity, its wealth and growth, would
all he largely the gainers, At all events,
the bridge should bo free for every man,
woman or child, who comes to trade here—
no matter whether he rules in his carriage
with money in his purse to spend here, or
comes with his waggon, with cotton, corn,
poultry or ground peas. It wo had the
control of this matter, we should instantly
make the bridge ftee for the Inhabitants of
M icon. Chambers and Russell counties of
Alabama. If the City Council persists in
this absurd ordinance the ci'izens and espe
cially the Merchants, who are most deeply
concerned should make their feelings and
wishes known and felt upon the subject.
If the ordinance is an unwise one, it is far
outstripped irt folly by the reasons upon
which it is based. We understand it is
passed to retaliate upon the Russell people
for establishing a toll bridge across the gully
jin the Noith partof Girard, on the road to
I Columbus. The argument is this—atoll
[bridge over the Giratd gully injuries the
| Columbus trade—we will therefore injure it
further bv raising the toll on the Columbus
| bridge. It is the old nursery policy of
["cutting off your nose to spito your eyes.”
Instead of lightening, it increases the evil,
j ami because Russell county permits antin
; wise policy, Columbus must do the same!
Mr. Cvr.lt, V. Giikt, the Washington
correspondent of the Charleston Mercury,
who furnishes for that paper, under the sig
nature of “Nous Vertons” materials of
suspicion against the Free Trade prin
ciples and purposes of the administration—
and staple for Whig electioneering matter
in the Froc Trade Slate* ; —is also a cor
respondent of the New York Courierfy En
quirer, a high Tariff press, and under the
signature of “ La Solitaire,” the same Mr.
Grey, furnishes that paper with Tatiff sta
tistics and other matter congenial to a New
York atmosphere, and the tastes of Mr.
Webb's leaders. Mr. Grey is an English
man, not yet naturalized, and writes for pay
in both cases. We should think that either
the Mercury or the Courier ic Enquirer
hud heller change their correspondent.
The current buimees of the U. S. Patent
Office for the month of September, is as fo'-
lows : Number of patents issued for improve
ments, 49 ; number of patents issued for de
signs, 3. Amount of fees received for new
applications, @5,840; amount uffees fur copies
&c., @133-Total, @5,973.
FROM MEXICO.
Tbe New Orleans Picayune,- publishes
advices 11 days later ftotn Mexico, via Ve
ra Ctuz. There la nothing worth copying—
President Herrera bad been installed and
delivered his speech, containing the custo
mary amount of patriotic sentiments.
The Mexican papers all speak of a war
for the te-conquest of Texas, as’ a matter
of course, aud yet no preparation is made
[for the achievement. They propose to ef
fect it, without a formal declaration of war
against the United States, and when it will
be entirely convenient for their Government
to commence Operations.
The papers are full of accounts of high
way robbeties, and disturbances of the pub
lic peace, as usual.
SAMUEL M. STRONG. Esq.
With feelings ol peculiar gratification we
announce the election of this gentleman, to
a seat in tbe State Legislature, by tbe Re
publicans of Bibb.
Mr. Strong is one of those gentleman
of high toned leeltngs and Itberal senti
ments, who disdaining party trammels has
dared to stand by his country. He has had
a hard battle to fight, and most nobly has
lie borne himself during a struggle which
has resulted in a complete and entire victo
ry over his enemies. Knowing him as we
do, to be a gentleman of enlarged views
and high order of talents, added to his per
sonal worth, and goodness of heart, we con
fidently predict for him, a brilliant career on
the new stage of action to which he is a
bout to be introduced.
THE ANTI-RENT TRIALS AT NEW YORK.
Upwards of one hundred prisoners are
confined at Delhi, awaiting their trial for
various breaches of the peace aud violations
of the Law, in connection with the anti
rent movement. John Van Sleerburgh is
on trial for murder. Ur. Boughton who
hears the sobriquet of “Big Thunder” has
been convicted of robbery (Judge Edwards
stated in his sentence that his crime was
rebellion and liightreasou) and sentenced to
hard labor in the penitentiary for life. This
man’s history is a somewhat eventful one
—one of the Repotters for the N. Y. Herald,
thus sketches it:
“ He is thirty six years old, was born in Ri-nsse
lear county, iu the town of Nassau, graduated at
Middlebcrg College in 1830, teceievrd the degree
of M. U. at Ruigi rs’College in New York, prsc'ic
ed medicine at Naraioga Spi in-'s during the vearsof
1833 and 1834, moved to Delhi the year following,
where Ire also practiced, in company with Dr. Siee e,’
ilio uncle of the lamented Deputy Sheriff, till ij, J
breaking out ol ihe Puirioi war in tfanuda, when lie!
enlisted under General Van Rensselear, at Albany/
together wilh Gen. Root’s son, who was then a cade/
at West Point,and went to help the Patriot ll*
was engaged in Hie bailies of <Jh#lcstown, Wind.,
mid Point and Nuvj Island. He was surgeon of tie’
itiHurriciionary forces, and at the .close of the war
was imprisoned in the jail at B.dfalo with Bill Lying
Mackenzie, Nels< n and oihers.”
It is to be feared that this dangerous
movement against the rights,of real proper
ty, lias been drawn into the Vortex of patfV
politics, just as religion, Masonary, Aboli
tionism, Nalivcism, ami every other ivn*,
has been, for the last 20 years. Nothing
can more forcibly illustrate the force of ihe
passion for party power and the corruption
ofthe means used to obtain it, titan the un
scrupulous avidity with which the most
wicked, absurd aud fanatical excitements
are seized upon and dragged into the politi
cal service. The Herald intimates, that the
course of justice is obstructed in the State
trials, now pendiug, by this circumstance,
aud that Houghton's conviction was owing
to the pertinacity of Judge Edwatds in lock
ing up the Jury until they agreed to agree.
MR. McDUFFIE’S LETTER.
We copy ftotn the Charleston Mercury, a
letter from this distinguished champion of
Free Trade, upon the subject of the admin
istration and the Tariff. We cordially re
commend its clear and strong views ot the
question of protection to all readers—to the
Whigs first. It is of the last importance
that the people of the South, without dis
tinction of party, should understand their
true relations to this subject. The fatuity
and pertinacity of intelligent Whigs among
us, who persist iu their adhesion to a politi
cal party in the country, pledged to contin
ue and to sustain the oppressive tariff of
1842, with its terrible injustice and butiliens
to the country, never ceases to amaze us.
And what are the lies to unite Southern
Whigs wilh this “ plundering confederacy”
as Mr. McDuffie calls it ? What political
principles do Northern Tariff Whigs sup
port, worthy of the attachment of patriots
anywhere? Can any man point us to a sin
gle principle advocated by ihe Whigs, and
opposed by ihe Free Trade pariv, the ful
lest success of which would compensate for
the evils and burthens of protection?
Will not honest and intelligent men, ask,
and answer to their own bosoms, these ques
tions? Nmv is a favorable time—the elec
tions are just over—Georgia, fickle as a wo
man, has made another somerset—a politi
cal calm is before us, most auspicious to the
forming of opinions and the settling of prin
ciples. The great masses of the Whigs of
Georgia, ate by nature, birth and education,
Free Trade men. They were nurtured in
the abhorrence of a principle which woful
ly aggravates our already unequal system
of taxation. Why then, do they repress
the gusli of native patriotism which coun
sels, invokes, and impels them to join the
people in overthrowing the monster burthen
which oppresses them 1 Is there anything
to stand between these men, and their na
tural impulses and duty, but the habits and
ties of party? We think not. It is utter
ly impossible for a sane and patriotic man,
whose interests or attachments are in the
.South, to he a friend of the protective sys
tem. Until the baleful spirit of party came
to divide us here upon other questions, there
was but one voice and one feeling among
us upon the subject. No people, could be
mote united and determined in opposition
to any measure, than were the people of
the South to the whole theory of protection.
Yet, what have we seen ? A portion of this
people, and that the most ultra and violent
in their views of the manner and duty of
opposition to a Tariff'—we have seen that
party, fairly and openly league, wilh the
High Tariff party at the Noith and unite
in entteting the hasty, ill-judged and oppres
sive law of 1842. Certainly this is proof
of infatuation and madness. It i9 true, that
hostility to Van Butou—a strong desire to
pull down his dynasty, and devotion to the
petsonal fortunes of Mr. Clay, were the in
viting and prominent features ofthis extra
ordinary Coalition. But, the result has
been all that the most cunning and far-sight
ed of the monopoly party at the North, could
have foreseen and desired—a complete tri
umph by the aid of Southern Free Trade
Whigs, of the protective system iu its most
odious forms.
Is this patty blindness tocontinuc forever?
Will Southern men never throw off the
scales of prejudice and passion and take a
just and patriotic view ofthis gieat subject ?ej
Not only our interests as a people, but our;
characters for sense and virtue, require us 1
to be united, and determined in our opposi- 1
tion to this system. Otherwise, we shall
be regartled as the tools of manufacturing
cupidity—too stupid to |terceive —and too [
spiritless to knock off the fetters, with which
we are bound.
We ate rejoiced to see that Gov. McDuf-;
fie does not participate in the apprehensions !
of the Charleston Mercury and Washing- !
ton correspondent, upon the subject of the
integrity and fidelity of the administration,
in reference to the Tariff:
MORE DIRTY WORK.
The effect of a bad example in pandering
to the vicious appetite of the public for pri
vate scandal, set by W. L. MacKenzie, is
beginning to show itself in N. York, in the
foithcoming of various other secret letters.
The N. York correspondent ofthe Charles
ton Courier, thus heralds the advent of a
new batch of villainy. Verily the morals!
of the city of Gotham are getting to a low j
ebb, when a man can reap $20,000 by one
act of scoundrelism : The writer says:
“There arc no eapcc-ul enterprizes on foot that I
can hoar of, ewe jit ihe Life anil Times of John Ti
ler, by a inan who has all the documents,- the pub
lication of another batch of the Hovt and Bih-leii
lel'ers, aud ihe private correspondence of Fannv
Ellsleh white in this country, brought to a
■pong the efleets of Usual- WtcKorr during ihe late
tire. The hoarding house where lie lodged was i.urnt
and, as ho was m Europe, his prnnnriy was not par
ticularly weh cared for. In Ihe hurrv (so runs ihe
story) a desk flew open, and out bounced a large
parcel containing letters to the divine Farsi, ili°„>
her agent. WiCKofF, (rum any quantity of’disnn
guished characters, making proposals to the divine v.
Heaveni! what an excitement the fashionable, poli
tical. mural, and every other sort of world will he in’
They say, 100, that Ihe ntw MaTkknzie publica
tion will contain uutnhersof letters from ladies in
good standing, Urging the appointment of ilieir bus
hands lo office on terms which you can imagine! If
ull those things he line we shall have a fury here
shortly, at which Mephiatophilcs himself will grow
good naiured.
/ CENSUS
Return of the Census of Muscogee coun
ty for 1845.
No. of free-white persons, - 9,711
No. of slaves fcfree persons of color, 6,632
Tola’ 16,343
In the city of Columbus, free white per
sons > 3,056
Slaves and free persons of color, 1,821
Total,. 4,477
J CENSUS OF MACON.
f The Telegraph of the 30th ult. publishes
the census of that city recently taken. The
jvvhite population is put down at 2,442;
S’aves, 1,709. Total, -4,1 SO. Vnievillo am)
that part of E ,st Macon not embraced iu the
corporate limits, are not included in the re
t rns.
Bishop Chase, of Illinois, was upset in a
stage a few days since, and tie had two of his
ribs broken and was otherwise considerably
bruised.
The author of Pen and Ink Sketches has
proceeded to England lo correspond for the
Boston Atlas.
The Clinch Fire Company of Augus
ta lias just returned from a complimentary
visit to the Phrenic Company in Charles
ton,
The Fite Company of Columinis turned
out ott the liver bank on Saturday night,
washing out and ptacticing.
THE WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
OF THE CHARLESTON MERCURY.
The individual who lias been making him
self notorious for some months past hy ren
dering the Charleston Mercury the vehicle!
ofmischief to the Democratic party, turns out j
to be an alien and an EnMishman, by the
name of F- Grey, ho manner and
the uccasiot^^^hLdr l the domino, un.
der which he will be seen 1
iu an article Iroin which we co- j
Some time since he to
the effect that Mr. Walker, Secretary ofthe
Treasury, was the author of the Kane letter. [
which being denied by the “Union,” Mr. i
Grey comes out under his own signature and
gives Mr. Iteverdy Johnson of Baltimore, as j
his author. We understand that Mr. Johnson
is out ofthe country, and it remains to be
seen how far Mr. Grey had authority to use
his name. At all events, the “Union” ex- [
pressly denies the allegation, on the authnri- 1
ty of the President and of Mr. Walker, (see
the article from the Union.)
For our own part, we are incredulous of any
statements made ,n the position of this writer
and through the columns of the Mercury.—
In defending its letter writer, the Mercury
has more than once intimated that it regard
ed the freedom of its correspondent's pen, as
constituting its chief value, aud excused his
wanton and venomous attacks upon itsown
political friends and— principles, we will add,
(for we look upon the Mercury as the best
and most useful friend of the Manufacturers)
on the ground of a just and rightful license
which its correspondent was fully able to de
fend.
We have said, before, and we repeat, that
it is impossible to reconcile the conduct of
the Mercury, with its professions of Free
Trade. The burthen of its complaints against
the administration—complaints shared iu, hy
none of Ihe Democratic press, North or Smith
—is, that it apprehends treachery to the
Squth upon the subject ol the Tariff. It is in
vain, that the administration, using every
proper channel of communication to the pub
lic, has iterated and re-ilcrated its devotion
and purposes in favor of “reducing the Tariff
to the revenue standard.” It is in vain, that
it declares that it has taken its eland upon the
Baltimore resolutions and will firmly main
tain the puli;ical creed therein promuigod.—
The Mercury is not satisfied, because it
made up its mind not to be satisfied from the
first, add instead of wailing with a confidence
that is accorded to an ordinary honesty, to
see if the Government would redeem its
pledges, it has hired an Englishman, to prove
iu advance of the time of their redemption,
that they u till be violated.
The Charleston Mercury over-estimhtes
itsown power, and under-rates the intelligence
of the Democratic parly, if it hopes ior -a
moment, to impress them with the belief, that
apprehension of the late of Free Trade doc
trines gives the true clue to its most extra
ordinary course of conduct. The. world is
i not so stupid, or so dazzled by Mercurial
; brilliance anti raciness, as not to see, either
: that the Mercury is playing for a stake not on
-the tabic,.or else is insanely mistaken in its
tn-fnle ol promoting the success of Fee® Trade
[doctrine*. , *
! Suppose, the Mercury succeeds in de
:roonstrating to the party, opposed to protec
| tion, that Mr. Polk and Lhe Union are tbe
cheats and liars he would make them?
! What then?. Is one blow struck at the Ta
i iff of'42 ? Will the Mercury goto the Mas
sachusetls Whigs for help to put down a
system, which is filling their cities with
splendid palaces, and covering their soil
wilh plundered dollats? Let the Mercu
ry lead in the chucklings of the Ta
riff papers, over his coirespondents publi
cations and its own course, what it has to
expect from that quarter! The frulh is, aud
the country sees it, that the Charleston Mer
cury, the self-arrogated organ of the only
true school of State Rights doctrines, is at
j this moment, the worst enemy of Free Trade
: And if the plan, on foot, to distract and di
vide the Democratic parly, in the coming
session of Congress, anti thereby defeat the
administration in its efforts to reduce the Ta
riff, shall succeed; the country will point
to the Charleston Mercury as the piime
mover of the mischief--as the “architect of
i uin”, to the cause which it professes lo have
so much at heart.
We ate glad that the Mercury stands
a one ol all the Democratic paners, we
know of, in this career of folly and madness.
We have reason to tiope and to believe, that
it does not meet with the approval of Mr.
Calhoun. We can speak for Mr. Calhoun's
particular friends and admirers (and they
are many) in this vicinity. They, one and
all, unqualifiedly condemn it. His friends
in Virginia have done the stittie. as weiearu
from ihe Richmond Enquirer, indeed all
sensible men, not like the Mercury, swayed
hy some unseen under current of political
passion or interest, see plainly, that upon the
Democratic administration, supported by the
unbroken phalanx of the Free Trade party,
rests the hope and the onlt hope of break
ing down the Tariff monopoly. The floor
of Congress is the field of action—there the
battle is to he fought and won, and all good
soldiers in the cause, are preparing and j
nerving themselves and each other furtlioj
conflict. The manufacturers on the other I
hand, ate rallying to sustain their abomina-j
hie legislative prerogative to tax and plunder I
| the country. Their presses have sounded
the alarm, and warned them, thatth.’ad-i
miuisliaiion was pupating to strike down I
the system. And it is in this state of tilings, I
that the Charleston Mercury, foremost in !
the tanks, loudest in iis denunciations, and
heretofore most eager for the fray, doffs its
well it ied arms against the High Tariff ene-!
my, and proclaims the battle lost, before aj
blow is Struck. Such conduct in a head of]
division, on the eve of battle in military af-|
j lairs, would doom him to death asa deserter
or a traitor, i tie Mercury may be sincere,
honest and pattiotic in its course, but it is
certain, that it has not yet furnished the
world wilh reasons for thinking so. “ We
can see nothing in it, but prurient disorgan
izaliotl —the result of passion, or political
i design.
From the Macon Telegraph and Republic.
TIIE CHARLESTON MERCURY AND
WASHINGTON UNION,
We have for some time watched with in
terest and regtet, and have been deeply griev
ed at the course the Charleston .Mercury has
1 seen proper to pursue towaids Mr. Folk’s
1 administration.
j That the whole South has just cause of
complaint against the present odious and une
qual tariff-—that they have likewise sufficient
[ground ior remonstrating in the plainest and
J most emphatic terms against the course
1 pursued nv a portion of the democratic mein
i hers in Congress lrom the northern states
upon that question will also bo readily ad
j milted,by every Southern democrat -yet we
j cannot see how we are to be betiofiUed by
the course the Meicury has thought proper
|to adopt. Does the infidelity of some of Mr.
ITo k’s triends at the north upon the tariff
j question justify us in breaking faith with an
administration wlnch must be regartled sound
; upon the tariff'i|uesiinn, until we have tested
it. Must the t.o;y reasonable hope of secur
ing redress from that grievous curse be
j abandoned when ruin stales us in tbe face
jlioni every other quarter ? With the contro
versy between the Mercury and its corres
! pendent, and the Washington Union, we of
C"Ui 0t at have nothing do—still we must
be permitted to say that we think too much
leeljng has been evinced hy both parties, and
that the controversy is exceedingly ill-judged.
If the Mercury is sincere and its motives
are founded in an Honest desire to accom
plish such a modification of the tariff'as will
be acceptable to tbo Republicans of the
South, if it will turn its arms against the
common enemy, and cease its attempts to
create disaffection in the minds of the people
against the administration until it is fairly
tried, it will have the hearty co-operation of
not only the entire Democratic press ol’ the
South, but the earnest prayers of the people
for success in arresting that great bliglit upon
Southern wealtii and industry. W-* are as
much opposed .to the tariff as the Mei cury
or any one else. We deprecate the hypocrisy
of some ol tlie northern Democrats as much
as it dues, but we cannot bethink that the
Mercury lias placed itselDpa false position
hy its late singtfcr atdßide towards the
administration ; it changes its
course we must the Washington
Union, that it caiinatJßvVMhe confidence of
the‘proud and Mr. Calliuun’
in its own Slate. .A Ay
Singular fdmta'w — A youth as
the mines u[|A Delaware Coal Cmkpai.ya
few days since in a very singular manner.—
He was up a tree after chesnuts, when, by
some accident, he fell, and on examination
it was found that a stick had passed through
one of his ej es arid out at the back part of his
head, thereby causing his death. — Pottsville,
(Pa.) Journal.
The World’s Convention farce has been
continued to the present time. It is periect
ly It armless.
GEORGIA ELECTION.
—--*-4- 1 ! *-
13*4. 1845.
% | President. | Governor. I
—g*- - jrs? • * —= —-
I 3 £
COUNTIES. . . : g. == REPRESENTATIVES JCXECTED
\f L_ r I
Appling, *i 152 142
Baker 223 506 204 357 Hentz,
Baldwin j.. % 324 307 -*315 268 Harris.
£ ibb 862 651 722 Armstrong, Strong
Butts 243 434 252 I 375 Butcheil.
Burke, 556 411 549 332 Gordon, Royal.
Bryan, 103 72 at, 16 i • • -a> Bird.
Bulloch ... 17 410 27 412 Goodwin.
Chatham,.. ....... 817 835 700 ! 715 Anderson, Ward,
Clarke, 596 420 538 399 Hull, Stroud. ’
Chattoqjja 284 324 300 330 Crook.
Columbia 492 307 ‘- 522 277 Fleming, Shockley.
Crawford, 377 454 m . ic \Green.
Cobb, 658 948 fe3? 835 i Maloney
Css, 655 1139 641 945 \ Smith.
Coweta I 777 744 -808 I 6R9 Berty, Perrv.
Carroll 355 7fi7 ....
Camden, 104 218 HO 220 Yillalmga.
Campbell, .. 205 543 in. 375 I
Clteiokee, 517 , 813 .... in. 203 Field.
Decatur, 383 346 .... .... I
DeKalb, 580 1 967 577 762 ■
Dade,..,... 46 ; 247 .... I
Dooly 269 | 507 ! !!! \\\\ j
Early, 211 419 .... m. 141 Robinson.
Entanuel 107 231 ... in. 11 Sumner, (tudependant \
Elbert...... 999 186 j r
Effingham", ] 193 87 246 111 [Guyton.
Fayette, 412 705 428 631 Whitaker.
Floyd,. . # 350 425 380 446 i Yarborough.
Forsyth,.. 454 731 in. 160 Thornton.
Franklin 379 1059 352 921 Morris, Knox,
Gilmer, 219 611 - 559 213 !
Glynn, 92 23 112 19 ‘Dubignon.
Greene,...., [ 780 132 -79 t 115 Armstrong, Sanford,
Gwinnett 779 763 757 670 .Martin, Whitworth.
Hancock,..., 515 330 507 307 |Lewis, Bruntly.
Harris, 845 461 813 390 Uraw.ord, Jones.
Heard,.... 293 436 tit. 81 Smith.
Houston, ,1 659 723 637 653 Bryan, Ilelrin,
Henry ,| 658 819 884 815 Arnold, Smitln
Haber sham,.; 323 ! 967 tn. 360 \Kimsey, Cobnuts,
Hall, 489 ! 697 j 529 j 599 j Baugh, Thompson.
Irwin 21 223 i ..., ‘Young.
Jackson 492 664 ■ 517 i 642 ! Bell, Moon.
Jasper, 438 ! 536 [ 475 493 j Wyatt, Barnes.
Jefferson, 579 1 108 j 544 ! 84 Stapleton.
Jones 397 455 424 445 Hutchins, Gray,
Lauiens, 685 15 “ .... Ii
Lee, 335 121 [in. 122 ~.. iOgUtiy; *
Liberty 179 ]9o m. 33 .iVarnadoe.
Lincoln, ! 286 - 179 in. 94 .... [Jenmqgs,
Lowndes, 427 362 ~., !
Lumpkiu, 665 ii” 54 946 556 Keith.
Macon 331 245 tn. 40 .... [Green.
Mclntosh, 127 114 109 124 Deleg ah
I Marion, t 417 256 469 349 ; 6ivins.
Montoe, 798 706 733 664 [LesseUr, Fambtbuglii
Morgan, 443 348 412 299 |Harris, Prior.
Murray 3u3 699
Meriwether, 688 926 695 ! 832 FctOr, Rowe.
Muscogee,.... j 1190 980 1071 851 Must.au, Howard.
Montgomery 238 34 ~.. ~.. 1
Madison, 317 327 j 338 334 A tie
Newton 4. 1025 553 ! 896 471 [Baker, Livitigstotf.
Oglethorpe, 626 241 ‘• 576 172 Smith, Lumpkin.
Putnam.., 430 351 m. 107 I no [Callaway, Peatsotli
Pulaski, J 247 457 ~. [in. 140 Haitsel.
Pike... 1 659 877 ~.. tn; 144 Gaulding, Kendall.
| Paulding 218 ! 394 .... \headbetter,
[ Richmond, 903 j 747 474 Jenkins, Rhodes,
I Rabun, ! 33 i 224
j Randolph,.. . t [ 606 [ 735 575 650 Ouiljord.
| Sumter ‘ 650 444 jm. 104 Jenkitis.
: Stewatl [ 892 813 904 690 Gau den. Stoke.
I Scriven [ 257 278 141 ‘ 223 Cooper.
j Tattnall,..;., i 338 64 1 .... *••• Clifton
Telfair 1 177 198 ! •••• WilcoxY
’ Thomas {. j 348 j 267 ->•
! Troup, ! 1055 487 1004 i 441 Waker, Harris*
Talbot,., 855 912 662 j 794 Dixon, Owen,
, Taliaferro | 386 67 1 411 j 54 Chapman.
[Twiggs, I 389 4f)7 [ ini. 75 Garcy.
\ Union 237 i 554 i•••• | ....
| Unson [ 643 - j 384 | 649 I 385 Crawford, Goode,
[ Walker, ! 447 I 686 i !
: Walton 555 763 i 505 { 744 Jackson, Kilgore.
i Wate 187 125
i Warren 641 368 607 ! 372 Anderson, Burson.
[ Washington 629 595 629 50S Bullard. Ware.
Wayne,..., 138 95 .... [m. 23 Stafford.
Wilkes 430 389 410 | 325 Robinson, Hill,
Wilkinson 387 560 m. 11l Rose r.
SENATORS
Ist Dist—Chatham county.. ,I...Jackson.
21 “ Liberty and Bryan. Hines.
3d “ Mclntosh and Glynn.. ..GigniUialt.
4 1 It “ Camden and Wayne., ..King.
i th “ Ware and Lowndes.,.;
6th “ Appling ic Montgomery.
7ih “ Bulloch and Tattnall., ..Cone.
Bth “ Scriven & Effingham.. iMcGahagan.
9th “ Burke and Emanuel’. ..Reynolds.
lOih “ Ltturens and Wilkinson. King.
1 liltV Telfair and Irwin Wilcox.
12tb “ Decalot and Thomas, ..Mitchell.
13iii “Baker and Early Colley.
14th “ Randolph and Stewart..Boynton.
loth “ Lee and Sumter Crawford,
16th “ Muscogee and Harris. ..Calhoun.
17lh “ Houston and Macon. ■ ..Holdenness.
18ih “ Talbot and Motion.-.. i.Stnead.
19th “ Pulaski and Dooly Whitfield,
20th “ Bibb aud Twiggs Chappell
2‘lst “ Washington & Jefferson..Cu/ry.
22d “ II chmond and Columbia. Miller.
23d “ Warren and Taliaferro. Harris.
24ih “ Hancock and Baldwin. ..Kenan.
Those in Italics are democrats.
From ili*r Union.
GIaOIiIOUS VICTORY IN MARYLAND.
Old Maryland has spoken with a voice of
thunder! She, too, has emphatically en
dorsed the principles and policy of the present
administration—she, who, but a few short
hours, was considered hy the wliigs as relia
ble sot their purposes as Massachusetts her
self!
Mr. John P. Kennedy, the whig belles
lottres member of the House, has lost his
seat in Congress; having been beaten severe
ly by Ihe gallant Giles, the democratic can
didate.
He has had a hard fall—stumbling, as he
did over the anti American doctrine of native
Americanism, which lie has labored so (at ti
es! Iy to foster tor some years past- Like the
eagle spoken of by Byron, he is wounded by
an arrow, whose shaft is feathered from his
own breast.
May all politicians iu the Union, who make
war upon the principles of our institutions,
by aiding and abetting nalivism, meet a like
reward ! llis other hobby, “the only fruit of
the whig victory of 1840,” lias turned to
ashes on his lips. As is well known, he
slaked his success upon the popularity ofthe
tariff of 1842 with the people of Baltimore,
electioneering only through some long-wind
ed essays in its praise- But the intelligent
and patriotic mechanics of the Monumental
city, who are not lo be caught with chaff,
would sanction neither Mr. K. nor his scheme
for protecting them by a law increasing the
profits on the manufacturing capital as wages
fall.
Mr. Wethered, the manufacturers’ cham
pion, par excellence, has also met with a sore
defeat iu the adjoining district. His command
over the bread of his workmen, and ever those
who depend on his workmen lor their bread,
could not save him—could not coax the
people of Ids district a second timeto endorse
the tariff of 1842. His seal in Congress will
be occupied by Thutuas Watkins Ligon, a
ELECTED.
25th “ Jones and Putnam,.; t...Hardeman*
26th “ Monroe and Tike..,. ... Martin.
27th “ Crawford and Upsonßrown,
28ih “ Meriwether and CowetaLce.
29t1l “ Troilp and Heard;,. ..Ridley.
30th “ Cartoll and Campbell; .Beall.
31st Fayette and Henry... ..SteU
32d “ Butts and Jasper. Bioddtis .
33d “ Newton and Walton.... Hill.
341 h Morgan and Greene Nicholson,
35th “ Lincoln and Wilkes... .Anderson.
36th “ Eibert and Franklin,...
3711 t “ Oglethorpe & Madison .Long,
38llt “ Clarke and Jackson ... ..Anderson,
39th “ DeKalb and Gwinnett. .Murphy.
40th “ Paulding and Cass.... McGregor.
41st “ Cherokee and Cobb.... Lewis.
42d “ Fotsyllt and Ha11...,.. .Ke110gg.
43d “ Habersham and Rabun.. Wofford.
44th “ Lumpkin and Union. ...Fie,d.
45th “ Gilmer and Murray....
■l6ili “ Walker and Dade
47th “ Floyd aud Chattooga.. .Ilackctt.
democrat elected especially to aid in reducing
the tariff of 1842 to the revenue standard—
to make the burdens of the government fall
equally upon all classes of our citizens.
If our opponents a>e wise, they will see the
folly of longet paying their scribbling emis
saries stationed in tins city to report divisions
in tlie democratic ranks, and the want of
public confidence in the administration.—
Maryland—lately their own Maryland—tells
the truth too plainly.
MORE WALL STREET DEFALCATIONS.
Within a few weeks past, it has been dis
covered by tlie house of Holford, Bancker St
Cos., private bankers in Wall street, that the
large amount of thtritj-tliree thousand, eight
hundred and odd dollars of the funds in their
hands,had been embezzled by their book
keeper and confidential clerk, the no means of
a regular system of fraudulent and false en
tries, and alterations of the books, carried on
for several years. —A. Y. paper.
Cotton. —The Port Gibson Herald of the
2d inst. has the following:
Many of onr planters are complaining loud
ly of the injury which tlie unpicked cotton
has sustained from the late rains. Much is
beaten out and stained, and innre is rendered
so “trashy” by the heavy beating of the rain,
as seriously to affect its value. We may be
mistaken, but it is our present opinion, that
ilie best qualities of upland Cotton must ad
vance considerably in price.
Gen. Saunders.— We have it from pood
authority that Gen. Romulus M. Saunders
has been appointed Minister to Spain, and
that tie will leave this country early in the
Spring. We must say that we are much
gratified at this intelligence. FayeUewtU
North Carolinian,
Gen. Santa Anna is living in gfeat stylq
in Havana,